Creative Team
(in alphabetical order)
ANNA CRISP
Anna is Improbable's Fundraising Officer. Before joining Improbable in 2018, she worked in research, development, and learning and participation for arts organisations including Turner Contemporary, Garsington Opera and...
JOSEPHINE MACHON
Dr. Josephine Machon is an Associate Professor and programme leader for MA Theatre Arts at Middlesex. She is a writer and practitioner in contemporary performance and a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy. Prior to joining Middlesex...
BEN MONKS
Ben has been Executive Director of Improbable since 2016. Before that he was the co-founder of theatre company Supporting Wall, and for them produced the Olivier Award-winning production of Mike Bartlett's BULL with the Young Vic and...
NICOLA STAMMERS
Nicola Stammers is Director of Programmes for Theatre Arts at Middlesex.
THERESA R. DUDECK
Theresa Robbins Dudeck, Ph.D. (Co-founder of GII), is an improvisation trainer, facilitator and speaker, as well as a theatre scholar-artist. Theresa is considered one of the foremost practitioners of the work of impro theatre pioneer Keith Johnstone....
PHELIM McDERMOTT
Phelim is the co-founder and an Artistic Director of Improbable. He has been performing and making Improvised shows since 1985 when he first worked with Keith Johnstone. Since then as a director he has been working on getting Improvisers to be theatrical...
LEE SIMPSON
Lee is the co-founder and an Artistic Director of Improbable. He is a Comedy Store Player and one of Paul Merton's Impro Chums. He's also been a croupier, cinema projectionist and breakfast show DJ. He's written plays, appeared in sit-coms and some films...
JOEL VEENSTRA
Joel Veenstra, M.F.A. (Co-founder of GII), teaches improvisation, stage management, and production at the University of California, Irvine. He promotes the intraconnection of all of these areas in his work as well as in life itself...
Creative Producers
Emma Attwell, Intern at Improbable
Olivia Coxhead, Producer at Improbable
Rupert Tookey, MA Arts Management student, Middlesex
Jeremy Wong, Operations and Finance Officer at Improbable
Symposium 2019 Steering Committee
Sam Beale, Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts, Middlesex
Chris Bannerman, Professor of Dance, Middlesex
Zuleika Beaven, Senior Lecturer in Arts Management, Middlesex
Sarah Grange (U.K.), Research Associate at Improbable
Nick Herrett, Associate Professor in Theatre Arts, Middlesex
Ola Johansson, Associate Professor in Contemporary Performance, Middlesex
Maxie Lankalingam, graduate student, Zurich University of the Arts
Daniel and Kari Knutson-Bradac, of YesAnd Conspiracy
Gabe Mercado, founder/executive director Third World Improv
Vida Midgelow, Professor in Contemporary Dance, Middlesex
Tansy Spinks, Improviser and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Middlesex
Patti Stiles, co-artistic director Impro Melbourne, international teacher of impro
Koray Bülent Tarhan, founder of Istanbulimpro
Robert Vesty, Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts, Middlesex
Yan Wang, doctoral candidate, Chapman University
Symposium 2019 Wider Advisory Committee
Maxine Doyle, International Choreographer, Associate Director and Choreographer for Punchdrunk
Benjamin Dwyer, Professor in Music, Middlesex
Samantha Holdsworth, of Nimble Fish and Clowns without Borders
Jonathan Impett, of the Orpheus Institute and Associate Professor in Music at Middlesex
Alison Jeffers, Researcher/Scholar in Cultural Democracy and Applied Theatre, University of Manchester
Eve Katsouraki, Researcher and Scholar, performance philosophy and politics
Rosemary Lee, Choreographer and ResCen Artist
Christer Lundahl and Martina Seitl, Artistic Directors of Lundahl & Seitl
Tassos Stevens, Joint CEO and Artistic Director of Coney