MAUREEN YOUNGER
Amused Moose Hot Starlet
Hackney Empire New Act of the Year Finalist
A multi-lingual London Scot, frank, fast, feisty, sharp, engaging - honest humour with attitude!
Gigs include
Hackney Empire, The Hyena, Glee Club, Hampstead Comedy Club, Upfront Comedy, BBC Club West One, Choice FM Comedy Club, Manchester Pride, Comedy Store, Comedy at Highlight, Just the Tonic, Bearcat, The Stand, Lee Hurst's Comedy Club, Underbelly, Komedia, Comedy Camp, ED Comedy, Up the Creek, Frog & Bucket, Amused Moose Soho, Downstairs at the King's Head, Arthur Smith’s Cut Price Comedy Night, Comedy Café, Laughing Cows, Hampstead Theatre, BrouHaHa, Buzz Comedy, Mirth on Monday, XS Malarkey, Funny Bones Comedy Clubs, Laughter Fest
International Gigs
Berlin: Comedy Club Kookaburra, BeatStreet, (in English), Stage-Diven at Scheinbar & BKA (in German)
Dublin: The International, Bankers, Comedy Shed
MCing
Resident MC for Laughing Cows in London, Birmingham and Berlin; MCed Music Stage at Newham Summer Festival & at Pink Festival 2008; Amused Moose , Downstairs at the King’s Head.
Warm Up /Support Act
Maureen was a warm up act for Puppetry of the Penis and performed warm up in English & Spanish and English & French as part of a prize-winning radio drama season, The Works. In 2009 Maureen supported Shazia Mirza on tour for her one woman show, A Portrait of Shazia Mirza.
Radio
Contributor on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Northern Ireland, BBC Radio Newcastle
Guest panellist for BBC Radio 5 Live.
Newspaper Reviewer on the Christopher Biggins & Lesley Joseph Radio Show, BBC Radio London.
Presenter Mo's Soul show on Break FM
TELEVISION/FILM includes:
Newspaper Reviewer on Sky News;
Roles in Band of Brothers (BBC/HBO), The Affair (black & white silent comedy). Comedy Balti (Brit Asia TV), MC for Comedy Night Live
THEATRE includes:
Saunders (Fallen Angels - English Theatre Berlin), Electra (Clytemnestra), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hippolyta/Titania), As You Like It (Pheobe/Lebeau), Philoctetes (National Theatre Studio), Comedy sketches (Café theatre, Paris)