The dirty lowdown on all the actors in the cast. For more information about the group see the easylaughs Press Page.

Jochem Meijer

Jochem started performing improv ages ago. In Amsterdam he met and joined with other players to form Problem Solved (later to become easylaughs). In 2003 Jochem performed with Blind Date, a longform improv group, at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. Jochem teaches improv for many theatersports groups all around the country. He is so busy with it that he created a job out of it. Jochem is the founder of "El Mustachios" (two time winner of the Boom Chicago Improv Battle), where his alter ego Jose Meijerinos along with his mates create mayhem on stage.

Nicole Mischler

Nicole comes from Washington D.C. and studied improv in Chicago. She is a founding member of easylaughs and performed with Problem Solved and Blind Date in Amsterdam. She is 39, Capricorn and left-handed. She teaches and performs improvisation all over the Netherlands. She has directed and performed in Washington D.C., Chicago, Amsterdam and Edinburgh. She went to Las Vegas to learn how to teach yoga, showing a sense of humor even in downward facing dog.

Ben Silburn

Ben started writing and performing comedy while at University. Spurred on by the overwhelming positive reaction from the audience (ie small groups of his friends) he felt compelled to push it further. He joined the Cambridge Footlights and went on to perform in numerous comedy shows with partners Will Ing and Dan Gaster - including five years at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He writes and presents for BBC Radio and Television (BBC World's "Fast Track"), which would be great except he lives in Amsterdam. Ben spends a lot of his time on planes.

Peter More

Peter thinks in English, has performed in Dutch and has had conversations about football in Mandarin. He has been on Dutch TV and Slovenian radio. He writes, reads, acts, teaches, does voice-overs and gets obsessed with bands. He was Artistic Director of London Theatresports and has been in more groups than he would care to admit to. He has been in The Netherlands since 2001 and in easylaughs since before it existed.

Kiki Hohnen

Kiki is Dutch-Australian which means spiritually, she lives at the Earth's core. She is fond of dogs, cats, baking, dragonflies, bollywood movies, and sleeping in hammocks. She has been improvising since 2004 and is proud of the fact she has only been attemptedly strangled on stage twice. Kiki is always excited about something - usually velociraptors.

Trista Mrema

Take 1 part Kenyan, 1 part Tanzanian, a bit too many parts American; dump the whole lot in the land of the Dutchie and you've got the heady mix that flavors Trista's world. When she’s not getting her laugh-on improv'ing, she's known to lend her voice as disturbed wife, all-knowing business statistics trainer and the prostitute from next door. She's always in search of more unusual characters to add to the cocktail.

Luke Davies

Luke is an adventurer and explorer with a strong moral sense. He usually solves problems with his wits rather than with force, and is more likely to wield a sense of humour than a gun; although he has been seen to use weapons as a last resort. Originally from Wales, Luke explores the world at random and has lived in the English Lake District, London, Brighton and Sydney and never stayed in any one place for more than 8 years. The imprecise nature of his travels is attributed to the age and unreliability of his brain.

Sarah Grimmer

Approximately 26,500 years ago, a volcanic eruption left a lake the size of Hong Kong city in the North Island of New Zealand. Around 24,524 years thereafter, Sarah Grimmer was born in about the same place. Connections have been drawn between the two events; sources are unreliable. She first improvised in New Zealand before moving to France in 2002. There she continued to improvise, performing with the group The Improfessionals. In 2006, she moved to The Hague, where she deals in the law.

Ashley Moore

Ashley hails from Australia but has learnt to speak English surprisingly quickly since moving to Amsterdam only a few years ago. He came to Amsterdam with no job, no house and no good reason and soon found himself in a show that requires no script. Ashley has improvised everything from hour long rock operas to the history of the universe in thirty seconds. He enjoys meeting new people, self-referential humour, and the Oxford comma.

Jim Buddin * New member *

Jim was born in Oxford, England. Growing up surrounded by the dreaming spires of the ancient University City, he was once seen delivering fruit and vegetables in the background of Inspector Morse, had a picnic quite near to where Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland, sat in the pub where Tolkien had been to once and trod the pavement outside Rowan Atkinson’s old University, frankly his future was sealed from the start. Just a few short decades later he inevitably ended up improvising with easylaughs.

Steve Alexander (Musician)

Steve is a musician turned improviser turned improv musician. His musical development began when his favorite toy, a Happy Apple, found its way into his crib. After studying music at university, he was in a band called Monkeybucket, in which he wrote and performed rock songs, comically. Steve plays piano, guitar, ukelele, theremin, cajon, and kalimba, and has been heard throat singing. Yes, throat singing. Just buy him a beer and ask.





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