Karin Thomson is the Project Manager for E2E The School of Night: Improvising Shakespeare’s Archive. Formerly the Librarian at the Shakespeare Institute, Karin has collaborated on and managed a number of projects with organisations such as the Royal Shakespeare Company, APAC (Association of Performing Arts Collections), the British Shakespeare Association, and the Library of Birmingham.

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She has contributed to published works on the history of the performance of Renaissance plays for major publishers, including Palgrave Macmillan, Bloomsbury and Cambridge University Press. Karin is currently working on a PhD on the Shakespeare Memorial Library at the Library of Birmingham with the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.

Shakespeare hasn't written anything new for an age, so we thought we would give him a hand...

​Using his language, your audience suggestions and our overactive imaginations, we create a brand new Shakespeare play live on stage!

Complete with live music, songs and plenty of laughs, we weave together the themes, characters and language of Shakespeare to create an unforgettable evening that the Bard himself would have been proud to pen (...probably!).

Sean has appeared in Olivier Award Winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical  for over fifteen years (UK and international tours), and as a founder member of The School Of Night worked with Ken Campbell at Shakespeare's Globe. Currently he remains one of the driving forces of The School, performing around the world and providing workshops at various festivals. 

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He has performed at the Royal Court, Soho Theatre, West End and Elsinore Castle Denmark, plus appearances for BBC Radio 3 and 4. He is the veteran of eighteen Improvathons in London, Bristol, Liverpool, Canada and Ireland, including the Toronto 55 Hour in December 2013 – the world’s longest ever long-form.

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Sean McCann has been a teacher of Improvisation at Oxford School Of Drama since 2006. Additionally, he has taught at East 15, Mountview, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the London Film School, and numerous international festivals.

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Dylan has been performing, teaching and directing improvised theatre and comedy for more than 20 years.

He is the co-creator of Olivier-award winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (www.showstopperthemusical.com) and a co-founder of the improvised sketch group Grand Theft Impro (www.grandtheftimpro.com) as well as being a member of The School of Night.
He appears regularly in London’s glittering West End, has performed at The National Theatre, The Royal Court, The Bristol Old Vic and many times at the Edinburgh Fringe; he has performed for various TV and radio programmes and hosted the BBC Radio 4 series of Showstopper! The Improvised Musical.

He primarily trained under Alan Marriott and Ken Campbell.​

These Folk is an improvised, mythical, musical folk tale brought to you by veteran improvisers Justin Brett and Susan Harrison. Inspired by audience suggestions and accompanied by the very best improvisational musicians, they weave a folk tale as old as time and as new as the moment it was created in. 

Duncan is the Musical Director for Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. His other improvisation credits include the BBC TV series Fast and Loose and appearances with Mike McShake and Paul Merton. He also coaches musical theatre-based improvisation in classes and workshops around the UK,