Laura Hall From WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? Performs With UP Improv

Unexpected Productions welcome back world-renowned musical improv accompanist Laura Hall (Whose Line Is It Anyway) and veteran improviser and television actor Rick Hall (KC Undercover, Curb Your Enthusiasm) for a night of improv and made-up musicals! They will join members of the Unexpected Productions' ensemble and together they will create a hilarious, completely improvised musical improv show! Sunday, March 8, 2020 at 8:30 at Unexpected Productions' Market Theater in Pike Place Market.

Laura and Rick will be at Unexpected Productions for their second visit. They will be teaching a workshop at Unexpected Productions on Muscial Improv. during the day and performing that night.

Laura Hall is best known as the improvisational pianist and Musical Director on the hit TV show Whose Line is it Anyway, which ran for nine years on ABC with Drew Carey hosting. After a long hiatus the show is currently on the CW Network, with Aisha Tyler as the host. Laura has toured extensively with Drew Carey and the Improv All Stars. She performed live with a combined British and American cast of Whose Line is it Anyway in London at The Adelphi and The Palladium. In 2018 she performed at The Royal Albert Hall in the Whose Line is it Anyway 30th Anniversary Show. She has played with many other improv groups at theaters around the country including: Unexpected Productions - Seattle, iO West and iO Chicago; The Annoyance Theater; ImprovBoston Mainstage; Arcade Comedy Theater in Pittsburgh. She currently often sits in to create fully improvised musicals with Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!

Laura got her start in improv at The Second City Chicago, first with the national touring company, then as Musical Director and Composer for the Jeff Award winning E.T.C. revue, Channel This! She composed original musicals with The Annoyance Theater in Chicago and Theater-A-Go-Go in Los Angeles, including Patty, Patty, Bang! Bang! which won an L.A. Weekly award for Best New Musical.

With her husband, Rick Hall, Laura teaches Music Improv all over the world at theaters, universities, and comedy clubs. Laura has created Improv Karaoke, fully produced original tracks improvisers can use to make up their own improvised songs. She has co-written a book, The Improv Comedy Musician: The Ultimate Guide to Playing Music with an Improv Group to help teach musicians about the specialized world of being an improv Musical Director.

Laura has written music for several indie films, including the score for Slice of Pie, a short comedy written by and starring her husband. She scored two award winning documentaries about female holocaust survivors, Swimming in Auschwitz and After Auschwitz. She also co-wrote music for Look at Me, with Luke Hannington. Along with Linda Taylor (from band mate on Whose Line), she wrote music for the romantic comedy, Anatomy of a Breakup, directed by Judy Minor.

Laura was a founding member of The Sweet Potatoes, an Americana band, with Laura on acoustic guitar, ukulele and accordion. Band mate Kelly Macleod and Laura wrote original songs for the band, Rick joined in on bass and harmonica. Laura has two cds of original faith-based music, and one of original children's music. She also wrote music for the Tell me a Story series of cd's, a collection of timeless folktales from around the world. And she wrote the score and songs for The Wheels on the Bus series of children's videos, starring Roger Daltrey as an 8 foot dragon.

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