The RHIIF23 Festival Team
2024’s Guest Curator
For our second festival, we introduced having a guest curator to work with the festival directors and wider team to infuse the festival with new ideas and a different perspective in an attempt to keep the festival fresh, vibrant, and ensure that we are working well towards our goals.
In 2023, we were incredibly lucky to have Midlands improv Legend and Bristol Improv Theatre Artistic Director, Kierann Shah, and for 2024 we are over the moon to be working with Tanine Dunais!
Tanine Dunais
Guest Schedule Curator
Tanine is an Iranian improvisor based in Amsterdam where she works with the Flock theatre in the core organisation team, as a teacher and performer.
She is currently in her second year as the co-artistic director of Impro Amsterdam Festival. More info here!
Lloydie James Lloyd
Festival Director
Lloydie is a writer and improviser in Nottingham, who performs with groups including The Maydays, Rhymes Against Humanity, and The Clones. He has studied at improv institutions around the globe and attended festivals the world over and can’t wait to bring that international improv joy to the city he calls home.
Liam Webber
Festival Director
Originally from Nottingham, Liam is now based in Sydney, Australia, where he is shows co-ordinator for Improv Theatre Sydney. He has studied at iO Chicago, worked with teachers from a huge variety of improv schools of thought and performed at festivals around the world - an opportunity he wants to give others in Nottingham through this festival.
Jeanette Bird-Bradley
A mainstay of the Nottingham Comedy Scene, for many years Jeanette ran stages at Nottingham Comedy Festival and performed solo shows and created Sing-a-Long Showtime - a showtunes kareoke party. As an improviser she performs with Rhymes Against Humanity and It’s a Trap! The Improvised Star Wars Show.
Laurie Owen
Laurie Owen is an openly trans independent theatre practitioner and being able to express himself through improvisation has always been a part of his queer journey. He has been improvising for 5 years, and ran weekly improv sessions at The University of Leeds Students’ Union for three years.
Kareem Elsaid
Technical Wizard
Mr Lights ‘n’ Sound, Kareem is the festival’s technician making us all look and sound amazing on the stage… He also is the proud owner of the world’s most garish suit.
Hannah Platts
Stage Manager
Hannah is an actor, improviser and voiceover from Leicester. They co-founded improv group Tiny Stories in 2019 and have performed across the country, including recently at Bristol Improv Theatre with guest Patti Stiles, and at last year’s RHIIF with Tiny Stories and Rhymes Against Humanity.
Duncan Carty
Chief Designer
Duncan is an improviser and freelance illustrator living and working in Nottingham. He has really enjoyed the challenge of creating a visual design that captures the spirit of improv and that says "Legendary and revolutionary!"
Thanks
We couldn’t have got this far in creating this festival without the advice and support of a number of people from improv scenes near and far including:
Lee Kennedy, Atalanti Juliadaki, David Escobedo, Jason Perez, Alex Fradera, Will Luera, Kat Horrocks, Jay Sukow,
Aree Witeolar, Terje Brevik, Stacey Smith, Emily Brady, Kevin Gow, TJ Penrod, Matthew Schlissel, and more!