Welcome to the home of Musical Improvised Comedy
We are Heather Urquhart and Joe Samuel and we have been teaching and performing musical improvised comedy for 10 years. We love to help people sing and be spontaneous. This site contains some of our stories, blogs, pictures and podcasts relating to our experiences with musical improv comedy. We hope you enjoy the site. We would be delighted to hear any feedback or questions you might have. Please email us at openyourmouthandsing@gmail.com if you want to find out more. To subscribe to our podcasts, click here. Rss Feed
Shows
Making up songs in the moment can add that unique personal touch to your event. Whether it is breaking the ice when people are first meeting, or providing that unforgettable end of conference show, we can make sure people are talking about your event for years to come.
We regularly perform with The Maydays and can put on a full show for you. See their website for more details.
We regularly perform with The Maydays and can put on a full show for you. See their website for more details.
Training
We offer musical improvised comedy workshops to people of any age or ability. Taking people up to their own line of fear, and then allowing them to gently step over it is our main aim. We try to provide a supportive, joyous and safe environment for anyone to explore their own creativity and skills, but also to be aware of working as a group, listening and responding to other people’s offers and supporting other people on their own journey.
We believe that musical improvised comedy provides a springboard for people to improve their self confidence, communication skills, leadership and teamwork skills.
We have facilitated many workshops for business and corporate teams to help them work together more effectively and learn to trust and support each other in a business environment.
We offer 10 week courses, weekend workshops and single sessions and are happy to tailor our workshop to your needs. If you are interested in finding out more, please get in touch using any of the contact details below.
We would love to hear your feedback or answer any questions you may haven about musical improvised comedy so do please get in touch.
openyourmouthandsing@gmail.com
www.musicalimprovcomedy.co.uk
www.joesamuel.co.uk
www.themaydays.co.uk
We believe that musical improvised comedy provides a springboard for people to improve their self confidence, communication skills, leadership and teamwork skills.
We have facilitated many workshops for business and corporate teams to help them work together more effectively and learn to trust and support each other in a business environment.
We offer 10 week courses, weekend workshops and single sessions and are happy to tailor our workshop to your needs. If you are interested in finding out more, please get in touch using any of the contact details below.
We would love to hear your feedback or answer any questions you may haven about musical improvised comedy so do please get in touch.
openyourmouthandsing@gmail.com
www.musicalimprovcomedy.co.uk
www.joesamuel.co.uk
www.themaydays.co.uk
Joe Samuel
Joe Samuel is a classically trained pianist and violinist having studied music at Royal Holloway University of London. He has been a professional musician for 15 years, playing in a variety of successful bands on both his electric violin and on keyboard. He teaches piano, theory, harmony, composition and music technology ‘A’ level as well as teaching musical improvisation and comedy. Joe Samuel has been the musical director of the long running sketch comedy show, ‘The Treason Show’ in Brighton for 6 years. He is also the musical director of ‘The Maydays’ improvisation group as well as being guest musical director for a number of other improvisation projects in Brighton and London. Joe’s interest in harmony and analysis has also led him to discovering a new way of teaching and understanding chords and harmony, and he now runs a project called SeeChord which helps students, teachers and songwriters hone their skills. SeeChord.com is the hub of this project.
Heather Urquhart
Heather Urquhart
Heather trained in Physical Theatre but after graduation started her lifelong affair with improv joining Kepow Theatre with Kevin Tomlinson in 2004 and has been with the Maydays since 2006. The Maydays were winners of the award for best comedy show in the Brighton festival in 2007 and have performed for audiences, and trained improvisers all over the country, even going to Chicago to train at the IO theatre in 2008. Heather is also part of a two person improv team with Jules Munns. Their show ‘Ten Thousand Million Love Stories’ is a multi-character longform improv show around the theme of love which they took to the Improvised Play Festival in Austin Texas April 2013. Heather is winner of Foghorn's UK Improv Smackdown 2013 and winner of The Latest Brighton Festival and Fringe awards Best female performer 2013. She compliments her improv career with acting, sketch comedy and singing. She has been a performer with Brighton’s satirical comedy sketch company ‘The Treason Show since 2007, as well as a sometimes singer with the mercury music prize nominated Electric Soft Parade.
Heather trained in Physical Theatre but after graduation started her lifelong affair with improv joining Kepow Theatre with Kevin Tomlinson in 2004 and has been with the Maydays since 2006. The Maydays were winners of the award for best comedy show in the Brighton festival in 2007 and have performed for audiences, and trained improvisers all over the country, even going to Chicago to train at the IO theatre in 2008. Heather is also part of a two person improv team with Jules Munns. Their show ‘Ten Thousand Million Love Stories’ is a multi-character longform improv show around the theme of love which they took to the Improvised Play Festival in Austin Texas April 2013. Heather is winner of Foghorn's UK Improv Smackdown 2013 and winner of The Latest Brighton Festival and Fringe awards Best female performer 2013. She compliments her improv career with acting, sketch comedy and singing. She has been a performer with Brighton’s satirical comedy sketch company ‘The Treason Show since 2007, as well as a sometimes singer with the mercury music prize nominated Electric Soft Parade.
