Mime Masterclass with Katie Tranter

Join multi award-winning performer and theatre-maker Katie Tranter for a day of mime training. Learn basic mime skills that can be applied to physical theatre, dance, puppetry, circus and cabaret.

This workshop covers a broad range of materials and techniques to help you hone your expressive movement skills including:

★Basic principles: Exercises from the work of Lecoq, Marceau and Decroux.
★Exploration of: Breath, Fixed Point, Push & Pull and the Elements
★Devising tasks with individual feedback

Please wear comfortable clothes, bring a bottle of water and be ready to be physically active.

Who is this workshop for?

It is for actors, clowns, puppeteers, improvisers, circus artists, physical performers, magicians, dancers, musicians, visual artists, street performers, storytellers, and the curious.

All exercises will be tailored to the participants' needs and everyone will have to opportunity to work both individually and in groups with allocated time for reflection and feedback.

Previous Participant Feedback:

★'It's really spurred me on to keep up my creativity and put myself out there as a soloist... thank you for encouraging me to be myself.'
★'Playful, intense, eye-opening.'
★ 'Joyous, free flowing, liberating'
★'Brilliantly facilitated' Rachael Walsh, Artistic Director, GirlBeatsWorld

About the Facilitator:

Katie Tranter is an award-winning actor, musician, puppeteer, clown and magician. Her recent credits include Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (Paramount), Doctor Who (BBC) and Cinderella: A Fairytale (Northern Stage).

She has taught clown and mime for Funny Women South West, Bristol Clown School, Circus Central, Play Festival and Exeter University.

Her movement direction credits include projects for Paramount, GirlBeatsWorld and Northumberland Theatre Company.

Katie trained at Exeter University, National Youth Theatre and Escuela Nouveau Colombier specialising in mime. She has also trained with Philippe Gaulier, Phillip Zarrilli, Denise Perdikidis (Tantztheater Wuppertal), Avner Eisenberg, John Wright, Alex Coehlo, Nola Rae, Peta Lily, Jose Piris, Arturo Bernal and Diana Bernedo.

PRESS ABOUT KATIE

'jaw-droppingly funny'
Everything Theatre

'good fun'
The Guardian

'regularly stole the show...eminently watchable and very, very funny'
London Theatre 1

‘a genius for comedy, and an ability to really get the audience on her side’
Spy in the Stalls

'really fun!'
Jim Carrey

Katie is twice an OFFIE award finalist for her performances in Tall Stories’ The Canterville Ghost and Iris Theatre’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She is co-creator of dark clown comedy Canary winning the Audience’s Choice Award at Prague Fringe Festival in 2019.

Her solo show The Great Divinator: Touched by the Spirits recently won Best Variety Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2025 and heads to Edinburgh Fringe this summer in association with The Project People.