Peasoup: A Spontaneous Cabaret @ Camden Fringe

Hello! We're Matthew and Katie AKA Peasoup Comedy. We've been improvising together since 2018 in various teams and shows. We've decided to take our improv relationship to the next level.

Peasoup started as a lockdown project. We would meet in parks around Newcastle Upon Tyne armed with instruments, a phone and a tripod. We did live streams and recorded improvised songs (all at a 2 metre distance from eachother!) for a number of months. 

Now we're both living in the south east we've started to perform the act live at comedy clubs and improv nights. We LOVE doing this - it's our calling! And we're now developing it into a full length show which will debut at Camden Fringe in August.

We need a little help covering the costs of developing our humble 15 minute act into a high quality hour of entertainment. Once we've got the show on its feet we will make it financially viable by creating marketing materials including professional showreel, photos and touring pack so we can take this show on the road!

Your contributions will help us to cover: 

- time with a director to develop and rehearse our ideas

- venue hire for rehearsals and performances 

- marketing materials for our two performances at Camden Fringe 

- props and music equipment

ABOUT KATIE & MATTHEW:

Matthew is an actor-muso, puppeteer and improviser from the great north AKA Newcastle. His theatre credits include two UK tours with The Three Inch Fools (Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Gunpowder Plot, Robin Hood), and performances with Kitchen Zoo (Hey Diddle Diddle), Northern Stage (Sorcerer's Apprentice), Northumberland Theatre Company (Alice in Wonderland), and Alphabetti Theatre (Bacon and Biros). Matthew received the Performers Bursary Award for the Moving Parts Puppet Festival in 2019. As well as being a puppeteer and improviser, he is also a multi-instrumentalist and plays the Irish Whistle, Piano, Ukulele, Accordion and of course...the triangle. 

Katie Tranter 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 with Fun in the Oven Theatre winning the Audience’s Choice Award at Prague Fringe Festival. She plays accordion, ukulele, concertina and saxophone. In her spare time she throws knives and does magic. Her stage credits include Sally Cookson’s Cinderella: A Fairytale (Northern Stage), Father Christmas (Royal Albert Hall), Rumpelstiltskin (Insane Root), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Speakeasy), Sinbad and Puss in Boots (Georgian Theatre Royal), Recycled Rubbish (Theatre-Rites) and Tiny Heroes (Daniel Bye). Screen credits include Doctor Who (BBC), Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles (Paramount).