Katy Schutte is one of the UK's top improvisational comedians.  She performs and teaches improv comedy, specialising in long form.  She is a Funny Women finalist and winner of the Brighton Festival Fringe Best Comedy Show award.

Katy has been one of the Maydays for 7 years, she has performed with Fluxx and Rideout, improvises musicals with Music Box and is half of the 5-star two woman long form show Katy and Rach.  Katy studied improv at Second City and iO Chicago and has had the pleasure of learning from some of the world's finest improvisers. Among others, she now coaches 8bit, the sensational London long form team.

Katy spent several years performing and writing with BAFTA nominated sketch satire company the Treason Show.  This year she did her first season writing and acting with Fringe First winner and Perrier nominee NewsRevue at the Canal Cafe Theatre.

Katy is currently storylining and directing a series of improvised film shorts with Back to the Feature as well as starring in a series of Katy and Rach webisodes for Jibba Jabba.

In December, Katy directed and performed in Silly String Theory, her new improvised play with songs at Canal Cafe.  Look out for our next run at the end of April 2012...

Cow milk makes her snotty.

Edinburgh Spotlight - "...certainly on a par with Paul Merton"

Remote Goat - "...the laughs came thick and fast..."

Chortle - "...could easily hold [her] own with the likes of Merton, Frost and Jupitus"