Meet The Team
These people make our basement go round...
Founder
Mike Burgess
Improvised and acted, for over 10 years in UK´s 2nd largest ¨WhoDunnit¨ murder mystery company. He has
written, directed and performed UK Pantomimes.
Major singing roles in musicals - include: Oliver (Fagin), Dracula (Dracula), Hello Dolly, Mame, Sweet Charity, Caberet, Chorus line, Guys n Dolls.
Acting Roles: Playboy of the Western World, Roses of Eyam, A Man for all Seasons, A Mad World my Masters, The Suicide, Taming of the Shrew, Sisterly Feelings, Farmers Wife, Young Elizabeth, The Sea, The Gentle Hook, Arms and the Man, and more...
Member of Singout Bristol Choir for 10 years - including performances at the Southbank and Royal Academy of Music in London.
Has regularly given illustrated talks on gardening, plants and native British wildlife and was a radio presenter for a weekly Bristol wildlife program for 3 years.
Since moving to Spain has co-run Watch This Space Improv a group set up to offer weekly stage space to English speaking improvisors in Barcelona.
Loves: Theatre, improv, animals, nature - trekking around Europe (and India/Nepal), dance, circus, cooking, gardening, DIY!
A team role to be announced
Annie O´Callaghan
Annie has been fortunate to wear many hats in the theater industry throughout her career. As a performer, teacher, director, writer, producer, stage manager, voice actor, puppeteer, and techie, she has seen firsthand the transformative power of theater on personal well-being, in education, and as a tool for positive social change.
Her journey began in Venezuela, where she worked with Teatro UCAB, Fundación Medatia, and Producciones Palo de Agua. She also had the incredible opportunity to tour internationally with AGOTeatro, performing in Liverpool (Canada) and New York (USA). She continued to hone her craft through studies with Teatro de los Sentidos in Barcelona (Spain). She is a Board Member of Morongo Gateway Lively Arts (USA), a Producer at Teatre Blau (Germany - Mallorca), and an associate of The Actor's Space (Catalunya), where she has continued to grow and develop her skills.
Currently based in Barcelona, she regularly works with Jocular Theatre and is an avid comic improviser, performing regularly, hosting and working with the Watch This Space Improv Community. She has also collaborated with Espai Debut and Sala Beckett, IPA Productions, Escapade Theater, Barcelona Improv Group, and Barcelona Improv Festival. In 2020, she became a content creator, writer, and researcher for the RoundGlass Learning Collective (India and the USA), developing courses, articles, and workshops on art, education, and well-being. She is currently completing a Master´s degree in Drama Therapy.
In 2019, she founded Teatro del Sótano, a non-profit association dedicated to the research and development of socially aware theater expression through devising and collective creation. In 2024, she joined Adam Jacques in launching Camp Fire Theatre, a new and innovative Theater in Education Company in Barcelona.
Annie is excited to join the fantastic team at The BCN Studio, bringing her passion for the arts, unwavering commitment, and sense of humor!
A team role to be announced
Brielle Jobe
Brielle, originally from the United States, finds her real home onstage as for most of her life has been spent as an actor, playwright, improviser, and now, comedian. She’s studied acting, improv, and theatre for over a decade, graduating from a three year advanced theatre studies program in 2017 and earning her bachelor’s degree in Musical Theatre Performance from Catawba College in 2021.
Additionally, she works now as an accent/dialect coach and a collaboration and creativity consultant - teaching others the skills of the theatre and how they can be used every day.
A team role to be announced
Angela Ruiter
Angela hails from Chicago but has lived in Barcelona since 2007, dabbled in improv, storytelling and dramatic theater, and generally always thinks she's on stage. She mainly spends her Studio time creatively herding kittens - meaning, helping creative types get things done without losing our minds or the fun, something she also does with hippie types on agriculture projects, after packing in her former life managing global digital products. Huzzah.
A team role yet to be announced!
Adrian Randle
Adrian began acting at the age of 14, making his stage debut at London's Millennium Dome. This led him into a career in theatre and television as well as live presenting and voice over work. He has been on numerous theatre tours around the United Kingdom and across Europe.
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In 2011 he moved to Spain, where he has worked with several theatre companies and appeared in a number of television productions. In 2023 he joined the Watch This Space Improv team.
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For more information you can visit his website
A Team role yet to be announced!
Samuel Allan
Samuel was first introduced to improv as a teenager in his after-school acting group.
He loved the freedom that came with improv, and that there was no such thing as being "too big", the sky's always the limit!
He kept up with his love of acting as he grew older, but it wasn't until he came to Barcelona and came across Watch This Space that he experienced improv as an adult, and fell in love with it all over again.
This time Samuel learned the satisfaction of working as a team on stage with fellow improvisers, and he loved that so many people had found a safe haven in Barcelona's welcoming improv community.
Watch This Space has become a home for many to come and play at, and now it has its OWN home to continue all the fun and laughter.
The role-haver
Zak Knudsen
Zak Knudsen (a.k.a. Chadbert Bunchweth) is an improvisational comedian.
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Zak started his comedy career in 2014 when he joined the cast of People’s Liberation Improv in Hong Kong. In 2022 he became a founding cast member and MC at Typical Adult Behavior, and joined as an MC and co-organizer of Watch This Space in Barcelona.