The team

Mike is the reason the BCN Studio exists. He is our daddy. A sprite-like renaissance man, Mike has an uncanny ability to bring the right people together and just let things happen. Incredibly annoying really.

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In 2017 he co-founded the Watch This Space improv comedy group in Barcelona, with the goal of creating a weekly stage space for new improvisers to play and gain confidence. Again, an annoying do-gooder.

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In his previous UK life he acted, wrote and sang for over 10 years in dozens of major musicals, plays, pantomines, a WhoDunnit murder mystery company, and the Singout Bristol Choir.

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To complete his annoying perfection, Mike is also a renowned expert on gardening and animals, is highly sought-after for his know-how in the Catalonian countryside and was a radio presenter for a weekly Bristol wildlife program for years.

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Angela is our business mom. She spends her Studio time herding kittens - meaning, she helps creative types focus and get things done without losing our minds or the fun.

She also does this with hippie types on agriculture projects since packing in her former life conceiving and managing global products. She is somewhat apocalypse ready and our second-favorite anarchist.

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Angela hails from Chicago but has lived in Barcelona since 2007, dabbled in improv, storytelling and dramatic theatre, and generally always thinks she's on stage.

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Samuel is the delightful guy around the Studio who just gets things done that need to get done. If he's around and you say out loud, 'Oh, it'd be great if that sofa were somewhere else,' the sofa gets moved. If you need someone to go encourage people in the streets in multiple languages to come see a show, he's out there being slightly creepy, yet highly effective.

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After falling in love with being on stage when he was just a boy growing up in Cyprus, Samuel went on to find any acting opportunity he could on the island. He then left to study a performance degree at a university in the south of England, before winding up in sunny Catalonia. 

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He’s been in all kinds of theatre productions, films, series and adverts and has even dabbled in stand-up comedy.​​​ He's a regular in our resident Watch This Space improv group.

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Samuel is excited to now lend his creative skills and performance experience to helping to make The BCN Studio an entertaining, fun and inclusive space for anyone who walks through its door.

Ariadna is a Cinemagician, filmmaker, storyteller, and multi-passionate entrepreneur blending cultures to capture magic, spark community, and inspire change on stage and screen. As a content creator, YouTuber, podcaster, activist, and documentarian, she brings events and people to life — conjuring stories with her crew, clients, and her chronicler self. Through her hit podcast The Always Believer and its #GoDoFly movement, she champions authenticity, self-love, and the power of heartfelt storytelling.  

Annie is overqualified for us. At the Studio, she oversees Artistic Direction and spends 50% of the time enjoying the creative process and the other 50% of the time getting into a total flap bringing up important things we all forgot to think about, which is quite entertaining and rewarding to experience.

Our Annie has been fortunate to wear many hats in the theatre industry throughout her career and has seen firsthand the transformative power of theatre on personal well-being, in education, and as a tool for positive social change.

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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. 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.

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Here in Barcelona, she regularly works with Jocular Theatre, performs with Watch This Space improv, 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.

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In 2019, she founded Teatro del Sótano, a non-profit association dedicated to the research and development of socially aware theatre 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.

Brielle is in charge of all things that sparkle and glow, having installed the lighting grid above the stage with help from Mike and Zak. You can find her in the booth, onstage, and everywhere in between!

Originally from the United States, Brielle has spent most of her life in the theatre as an actor, playwright, technician, 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. She plays on the BCN Studio's resident improv team, Watch This Space, as well as across town with Typical Adult Behavior. She hosts two open mic comedy shows and can be seen frequently performing, herself.

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.

Alex is an illustrator, dreamer and tarot reader. From telling their own romantic past in love letters, to crafting watercolor paintings showing the intimacies of bodies, and designing flyers for all types of events. As a visual artist, they’re making moves to share their perceptive of the world through comics, paintings and tarot readings. You can find them designing flyers, creating comics, romantic paintings, and reading tarot.

In the studio, Alex brings their visual knowledge to the lights, sound, and assistances with decore. Connecting with the art community in Barcelona, sharpening their event coordinating skills, and getting to know the people are a few things that keeps Alex coming back to the Studio. 

Find them on all socials at agcarol.illustrations