Welcome to Musical Improvised Comedy
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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 have been fortunate enough to teach, train and facilitate all over Europe working with clients, businesses and improv troupes. Please email us at openyourmouthandsing@gmail.com if you want to find out more. To subscribe to our podcasts, click here. Rss Feed
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We specialise in taking groups of people with no experience or particular ability and allowing them to be spontaneous and creative. Creating songs in the moment truly focuses the mind on the present moment, the people around you and your own resourcefulness. We facilitate groups to be non-judgmental and supportive to allow each individual to step gently outside their comfort zone. If you would like us to work with a group or business, get in touch now.
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.
