Harriet Braine

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Harriet Braine is a musical comedian and archivist. In 2017 she won the Funny Women Awards, for which she was mentored by Ellie Taylor, and she was Best Newcomer at the Musical Comedy Awards. [1] [2] The same year Braine was a finalist in the So You Think You're Funny? competition for new acts. [3] [4]

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Braine undertook a five-year Master of Arts course in fine art at Edinburgh College of Art, part of the University of Edinburgh. While studying, she joined Paradok, an alternative theatre group, and became president of the group in her final year. [5] [6]

In 2017, Braine performed an hour-long show at the Edinburgh Fringe; titled 'Total Eclipse of the Art' the show was themed around art history, with one reviewer remarking on Braine's "impressive array of songs about Leonardo Da Vinci, Monet, Tracey Emin, [and] Pablo Picasso". [7] Following this, Braine developed 'Apocolibrary' which she performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2018. In the show she took on the role of a librarian during the apocalypse in 2023. [8] [9]

Braine hosts The DesignSpark Podcast, a show about modern technology, with comedian Bec Hill and engineer Lucy Rogers. [10]

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Braine has been involved in podcasts and comedy surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI), science and technology. [11] She has written songs about women in science including Ada Lovelace.

""I had just been thinking about all these amazing scientists. A large number of them, really coincidentally, happened to be women and it really got me wanting to read more and write more about them.

It resonated with a lot of people. I ended up talking to a lot of women in science or teaching fields who came to the show and wouldn't have come otherwise. It's one of those topics that really grabs people who are in that world because there's not a huge amount of comedy out there specifically for them.

It didn't exclude everyone else, either, and a lot of people who didn't know anything about any of the women I talked about said, 'Now I appreciate something I didn't know before'." [12]

She has also been involved in hosting a Platinum Jubilee Street Party in Reading, over half a mile long, with other celebrities. [13]

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  2. ↑ "MCA 2016 Best Newcomer". Musical Comedy Awards. 29 March 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  3. ↑ "Finalists & Runners up – So You Think You're Funny?". soyouthinkyourefunny.co.uk. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  4. ↑ "Funny Women award winners announced". BBC News. 2016-09-29. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  5. ↑ "Preserving our musical heritage". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  6. ↑ Venables, Ben (12 July 2017). "Harriet Braine: Edinburgh Fringe Spotlight". www.theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  7. ↑ Johnson, Angela (19 August 2017). "Harriet Braine: Total Eclipse of the Art – Edinburgh review". Funny Women. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  8. ↑ Johnson, Angela (16 August 2018). "Harriet Braine: Apocolibrary". Funny Women. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  9. ↑ Barber, Rachel (18 September 2018). "Time of the Month: Edinburgh Fringe Debrief Edition, Part Two". Funny Women. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  10. ↑ "Comedy and the art of STEM communication". The Engineer. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  11. ↑ Guide, British Comedy (2019-05-20). "Talking techLOLogy with the DesignSpark Podcast cast". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  12. ↑ Guide, British Comedy (2020-03-05). "Harriet Braine talks about 'niche comedy'". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  13. ↑ "Platinum Jubilee street party over half a mile long announced". Reading Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
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