Katy Schutte
Katy is a London-based comedian, actress and satirist. She performs with award-winning improvised comedy company the Maydays (5 stars Three Weeks, 4 stars Chortle). She won a place in the Funny Women finals at the Comedy Store and is part of the Treason Show team where she enjoys writing and performing satire with the Bafta-nominated company.
Katy has worked as a deviser and performer with cult variety show Voodoo Vaudeville for 2 years and created and produced the stand-up night Rabbit in the Headlights from 2005-2009.
Katy loves the American ethos for Longform improvisation and trained over two summers with Second City and IO Chicago. She has had the privilege of working with some fantastic teachers and performers such as Bill Arnett and Jason Chin.
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What Rach thinks about Katy
Katy Schutte was totally nude when Rachel met her, except for tennis shoes. They kicked off a conversation in the steam room that day about the perils of fungal foot disease in shared spa facillities and Rachel took care to dry her feet properly upon exiting. From then on it just got crazier and crazier. Katy is an expert in nipple tassle semaphore, iron mongery and rhythmic gymnastics which some say is passe, but in the hands of an expert you would think again. In Katy Schutte, Rachel has found the perfect brainy foil for her physical chaos and outlet for her more extreme performance fantasies. Rachel loves Katy.
What Alexis thinks about Katy
Alexis admires Katy's quick wits and her hands-on, no nonsense, down to brass tacks attitude toward hilarity. He would even venture to call it artistic seriousness, if she would let him get away with it (which she would not). He still cherishes the small magical totem object she created for him, which is coloured green, made of wood and thread, shaped like a small man, and specially enchanted to attract cold hard cash. Katy is Alexis's favourite shaman and conduit to the spirit world. He has never seen her perform the pole dance maneuver called the Iguana, but her description of it still fills him with shock and awe.