IMPROFEST workshop: Big Dumb Joyful Improv - Alison Thea-Skot

Big swings, shoot for the moon, this workshop explores finding that inner buzz, your own philosophy to go on stage and make moves from and towards joy. What makes you feel silly, playful, and magical? “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose”. Yes coach!

Bio:
Alison Thea-Skot is a critically acclaimed actor, comedian, improviser and writer. ‘The reigning queen of character comedy’ Evening Standard. Selected as one of the Observer’s Female Millennials Changing Comedy, the Evening Standard's Best Comedy Shows to See and The Telegraph's Best of the Fringe. She can be seen on Comedy Central, Sky, BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and she has worked with Bad Robot & Paramount Pictures.

Alison is a highly skilled improviser, performing for over 12 years on the UK’s biggest stages. As well as developing improv TV formats for ITV & BBC, she is a founding member of improv supergroups ‘Groundhog’ & ‘SORRY’ (Evening Standard’s Funniest Shows to See) and was invited to perform a two-person hour long improv show with Jason Mantzoukas. She regularly performs & teaches at The Free Association Improv Theatre in London, she’s hosts and stars in the smash hit ‘Uncle Glen’s Menagerie’ and has guest performed with multi award winners ‘Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel’.

The workshop is a part of Improfest 2025, a theatre festival focusing on improvisational theatre. The festival invites improvisers from Sweden and the rest of the world to give performances and offer workshops in various locations in Sweden during the period May to August 2025

(Workshopen kommer att hållas på engelska då Improfest är en internationell improvisationsteater-festival med inbjudna improvisatörer från hela världen.)