Pol is a Catalan improviser who started his journey in Calgary (AB, Canada) with the Kinkonauts and Loose Moose Theatre where he was an active member and volunteer in the improv community, and hasn’t stopped since. After leaving Canada, Pol has trained with The Showstoppers (UK), Rapid Fire (Canada), BIG Improv School, Escuela de Impro and Improv Training Center (Barcelona) and is a proud member of the last iO Summer Intensive in Chicago. He loves whacky characters, narrative and genre improv, and his secret weapons are singing and dancing.

When Pol is not improvising he works as a Primary School Teacher in Barcelona and volunteers at the Observatory Contra l’Homofobia de Catalunya. As a teacher, psychologist, and LGBTQIA+ activist, his teaching style is all-inclusive, adaptable and respectful. Pol has been an active member of the BIG team since 2018.

Leanne is an Australian improviser who has been performing shows for over 10 years. She adores being on stage, especially playing wacky characters and bringing inanimate objects to life. Leanne has trained with Big Fork Theatre (Brisbane), the Free Association (London) and the BIG Improv School (Barcelona). Her stage credits include a range of improv shows at the Anywhere Theatre Festival and Brisbane Comedy Festival, Australian National Theatresports Competition, and with the BIG team.

Leanne has a degree in Speech and Language Therapy from the University of Queensland. She works with children and their families to support communication development. Her particular passion is offering neurodiversity affirming therapy for autistic children. Leanne’s teaching style is strengths-based, empathetic and playful. She strives to help all students feel comfortable and creative. Leanne is delighted to be a part of the BIG Improv School to share her love of improvising with the community.

Miguel is a Spanish improviser who started improvising in 2019 in Barcelona with Jamming Barcelona. He fell in love with improv and complemented his Spanish training with his English training at BIG, attending several courses per week and performing both in Spanish and English.

He has trained and performed in many festivals around the world and is constantly looking for new stages to play on and new people to play with. Miguel loves finding the connection between players and creating captivating stories together. He has a supportive style of teaching based on letting the students find their own personal style of improvising.

Miguel holds a master's degree in chemical engineering and is an expert in 3D printing and additive manufacturing. When he is not improvising, he likes to play ultimate frisbee on the beach and read detective novels.

Joanna is an award-winning singer, composer and pianist. She recently moved to Barcelona after two years of living in New York where she was performing her music and collaborating with singers, actors and improvisers from Magnet Theatre and UCB as a pianist.

Joanna ranks as one of Poland’s top musical directors having worked with the Warsaw Comedy Club, Improv School, Vocal Group Jazz City Choir and The National Puppet Theatre in Warsaw. She is one of the founders of the first musical improv group in Poland ("Musical Improwizowany". As a specialist in her field she has taught numerous master classes in singing and musical improv.

She received her Master of Music from Karol Szymanowski Academy and Bachelor of Music at the Fryderyk Chopin Music University in Warsaw, Poland. Joanna recently received 2nd prize at the prestigious Instant Composer Contest during “Translantyk Film Festival” in Lodz, Poland. She has won multiple esteemed jazz competitions for singing in Poland, Romania, Estonia, Latvia including Riga Jazz Fest, Nomme Jazz and Voicingers Festival.

Kevin is a product of the American Midwestern city of Cincinnati, Ohio. He has lived in Barcelona since 2005. Born to parents who met in musical theatre, Kevin has participated in various types of performance since the age of 5. More recently, you may have seen him perform improvisation at BIG student shows, or in Jocular Theatre’s 2017 production of Hand to God. In 2015, he began his improv journey with the BIG Improv School and became hooked by working to stay in the present, the art of listening, and finding and offering support on stage, the foundations of great improvisation. He’s very thankful to his partner, Laura, and their two children for their indulgence of his theatrical pursuits. He’s also extremely happy and grateful to be part of the cast of BIG and finds it awkward to write about himself in the third person.

John was raised in Birmingham, England, but has spent almost the entirety of his adult life in Barcelona. A natural show-off, John has always enjoyed the attention of an audience. Growing up, that mainly consisted of entertaining his sisters and dipping into the odd school play. His creative endeavours have included stand-up comedy, recording comedy sketches, and writing, producing, directing and appearing in short films and theatrical productions, notably short plays with Jocular Theatre, the English Theatre Group and Microteatro. John discovered the magic of improv with BIG in 2012. Since then, he has enjoyed the space and opportunity offered by improv to develop and hone his acting chops, and to truly embrace the playfulness of life.

Martin hails from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA, and has been within spitting distance of a moose. After departing the cold north, he was introduced to improv in 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia. He continued his journey in San Francisco and Oakland, performing with Shoestring Radio Theatre in 2015 and Lucky Dog Theater in 2016. More recently, he trained with Hangar Manicómico in A Coruña and with the BIG Improv School in Barcelona. Martin is beyond thrilled to be a part of the cast of BIG and to continue seeking the joy in the unexpected and the beauty in the ephemeral.