Künstlerische Leitung

Zum letzten SPUNK haben wir uns einen der erfahrensten Improspieler Europas eingeladen, der uns gemeinsam durch einen wilden Trip an Shows mit Charme, Gefühl und Talent führen wird.

Gilly Alfeo

Köln, DEUTSCHLAND

Das erste Mal bei SPUNK dabei.

Gilly Alfeo is an improviser, actor and musician who has been working professionally on stage since 1995.
His musical talent blossomed when he studied jazz piano at the Conservatory in Enschede (NL). He learned the craft of improvisation and acting as a long-standing member of the ensemble of Springmaus Improvisationstheater, for which he worked for 22 years.
Gilly’s enthusiasm for the art of improvisation is palpable throughout. Coupled with his experience of more than 2,500 improv shows, he succeeds in inspiring audiences and improv students alike. His deep understanding of the art of improvisation makes him an expert in his field.
He is at home on the cabaret stages in Germany and numerous improv groups in the Rhineland have come to appreciate him as a teacher of his art. Also, he is a regular guest in Berlin, the largest international improv festival in Europe.
Improvisation is at the core of his work. Gilly stands for a living improv culture as a professional artist and puller of strings on and behind the stage.

 

Gäste

Auch in diesem Jahr bringt das SPUNK mit internationalen Gästen aus Grossbritannien, Österreich, USA, Polen und Deutschland grossartige, spannende und innovative Gäste nach Zürich. Der Cast besteht aus SPUNK-Ensemblemitglieder aus (fast) allen Jahren.

Matt Higbee

Chicago, USA

SPUNK-Gast: 2019

Matt Higbee has been teaching and performing improvisational theater for more than 20 years. He was a faculty member and veteran performer at iO Theater in Chicago before its closing in 2021. While working at iO, Matt got the opportunity to work with the legendary TJ & Dave show. He has been pulling lights for the duo since 2008. Matt now supports his improv habit working as an Instructional Designer and Learning & Development Specialist. He brings a unique blend of theater, education, and stupidity to his workshops and shows. Matt knows the secret of life, but only reveals is it at shows and during workshops.

 

KATY SCHUTTE

London, Grossbritannien

SPUNK-Gast: 2021

Katy Schutte is one of the UK’s original long form improvisers. She performs and teaches all over the world, is a Head Teacher for Hoopla (the UK’s biggest improv school) and Co-Founder Director of The Improv Place. She has been one of The Maydays since 2004, is half of legendary sci-fi improv duo Project2, performs with Hell Yeah! and authored The Improviser’s Way: A Longform Workbook, published by Nick Hern Books. A Funny Women finalist and both nominee and winner of the Brighton Festival Fringe Best Comedy Show award, Katy also starred in BAFTA winning online educational series History Bombs.

Tobias Zettelmeier

München, Deutschland

SPUNK-Gast: 2016

Tobias Zettelmeier, Germany; Artistic director from Bühnenpolka, Munich. The double bachelor (theater studies and social work) is europewide as an trainer and actor for different formats on tour, both improvised and scripted. He also works for „Verstehen Sie Spaß“ where he loves to prank people.

Beata Różalska

Gdynia, Polen

SPUNK-Gast: 2020

Beata Bebe Różalska – architect and improviser based in Poland. She started working with improvisational theatre in 2007. She performs and teaches both in Poland and abroad. Beata performs with groups SzaFoFe, 7 Women of Different Ages and she is a member of international network of improvisers The SIN. She wants to encourage people to be more playful and to feel more ease in scenes. On a stage she seeks for variety of emotions, using freedom, movement and her own nature. Beata treats Impro as an art that may help us to develop many abilities. Her hope if that through impro we may show what is good and how to disagree with bad behavior.

Georg Bauer

Österreich, Wien

SPUNK-Gast: 2013

Georg loves how straightforward and complex impro is at the same time. There are so many ways to play, so many things to try out, so many discoveries to surprise himself and others on stage. It feels like an endless universe of possibilities, one day treading a path that seems familiar in some way, on the next day he finds himself in worlds he has never dreamed of before. At the core of it, it is about being in the moment with friends, saying yes to yet another adventure to explore the unknown together and celebrate the serious as well as silly fruits of discovery found along the way. On his best days, it feels like the greatest celebration of life he knows.

Jochem Meijer

Amsterdam, Niederlande

SPUNK-Gast: 2017

Jochem Meijer is an improviser from Amsterdam. He started improv in 1999, so he can and will say he has got over 2 centuries worth of experience. he has made his work of teaching various improv troupes, schools and companies within the Netherlands and Europe. He is part of various specialized improv groups. He is also part of the artistic committee of the impro festival in amsterdam (IMPRO Amsterdam). In his free time he is trying to insert his improv skills into the online gaming world, ask him about it and he will explain in depth what that means. (so be aware) He loves making people click with each other and focuses on getting the group to a higher level. In his workshops he focuses on learning trough doing. So don’t expect to be sitting down in long discussions but to get moving and playing when you take a workshop with him.

Gerit Scholz

Wien, Österreich

SPUNK-Gast: 2014

Gerit Scholz befasst sich seit 2008 leidenschaftlich mit der Improvisation im Theater, Gesang und der Clownerie. Sie ist Gründungsmitglied des von 2011 bis 2020 bestehenden Vereins Quintessenz Improvisationstheater sowie Mitbegründerin des Wiener Improfestivals. Seit 2011 steht sie regelmäßig, mit verschiedensten von ihr mitentwickelten Formaten, im In- und Ausland auf der Bühne. Mit dem, von ihr und Georg Bauer gegründetem, Impro-Kabarett Duo GeBa und GeSch, gewann sie 2017 den goldenen Kleinkunstnagel. Seit 2021 ist sie mit dem Impro Trio Die Dritten unterwegs. Gerit gibt Workshops für Anfänger*innen und Fortgeschrittene und begleitet junge Improtheatergruppen im Entstehungsprozess. Seit 2017 ist sie außerdem als Clowndoktorin für die CliniClowns Austria in Krankenhäusern und Pflegeeinrichtungen in Wien und Niederösterreich unterwegs.

Juš Milčinski

Ljubljana, Slowenien

SPUNK-Gast: 2017

Juš Milčinski has been performing in the art of improvisational theatre since 1999, first as a member of the Slovenian high school improvisational league and later as a member of different impro troupes in the adult Slovenian improvisational league, playing mostly shortform theatre. In 2003 he joined the Improklub project, adding longform impro to his resume and later performing in numerous longform shows with different theatres. He is a co-founder and member of IGLU – Improvisational Theater of Ljubljana, where he regularly performs and teaches since 2013. He is also the executive producer of the Naked Stage, international festival of improvisational theatre in Ljubljana and the international project Along the Walk. He loves American football, modern dance and Beirut (the band).

Daniela Landert

Zürich, Schweiz

SPUNK-OK seit 2018

Daniela studied the art and craft of improv at theater anundpfirsich in Zurich and at iO Chicago, as well as in numerous workshops with internationally renowned improvisers. She greatly enjoys improv in all its variations, which is why she is a member of several different ensembles. She is part of the all-female group da vorne links, who specialise in improvised plays, and of Zurich Improv Comedy, who perform short-form improv shows in English, and she is one half of the duo Apropos. Daniela co-founded Theater Ida, a theatre space for improv, which is open to the improv community in and around Zurich. In addition, she studies improv as part of an academic research project (https://impro.study), in which she analyses the language improvisers use on stage. She also offers applied improv courses for PhD students, in which participants reflect on notions of success and failure in the academic context.

Donat Feijóo

Zürich, Schweiz

SPUNK-OK seit 2017

Donat Feijóo ist Schauspieler und Trainer. Beim theater anundpfirsich leitet er den Bereich Theaterkurse. Seit 2017 ist er (Mit-)Organisator vom SPUNK.

Er liebt es, auf der Bühne Geschichten zu erzählen, stetig neu herausgefordert zu werden und andere mit seiner Spielfreude anzustecken. Donat liebt Sprache – er hat eine Schwäche für schnelle Dialoge, Patterns, Espresso Macchiato und dem Spiel mit Wiederholungen. Mit Wiederholungen.

Gerald Weber

Zürich, Schweiz

SPUNK-OK seit 2013

Gerald is improvising professional for over 10 years. He had the joy to serve as an artistic and educational director of several improv companies. He has been teaching and performing all styles of improv in Europe and America. And simply cannot pick a favourite way of doing improv. Something he always loved is comedy, storytelling and genrework. 

Emilia Weber

Zürich, Schweiz

SPUNK-OK seit 2015

Emilia is and born and raised Berlin-Girl and she has been passionate about improv theater since 2004. After studying „theater studies“ and „general and comparative literature“ in 2013, she decided to turn her passion into a profession and has been playing on the improv stages in Germany, Switzerland and the USA ever since.
She is an integral part of the anundpfirsich core team since 2016.

Sheriff

Jennifer Sippel

Zürich, SCHWEIZ

Seit 2020 großartige SPUNK Sheriff

Jenny’s Improherz schlägt bereits seit jungen Jahren. Nach einer sehr langen Pause und dem Auswandern in die Schweiz hat sie die Liebe fürs Impro durchs anundpfirsich wieder entdeckt und lebt es seithin. Neben aktivem Impro wie bei der Masterclass, unzähligen Vertiefungskursen bis hin zum Nachwuchsensemble dient sie dem anunpfirsich schon jahrelang als Lichttechnikerin und Helferin. Sie ist fester Bestandteil des anundpfirsich und unterstützt wo sie nur kann. Als Sheriff, dem Oberhaupt der Helfer für das Spunk, hat sie nun das dritte Jahr in Folge den Hut auf und sorgt mit Ihrem Team dass es niemanden auf, hinter, neben und unter der Bühne fehlt. Pew Pew.