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our team
Mario Abel
Mário Abel holds a degree in Acting-Theatre from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Higher School of Theatre and Cinema) since 2012. At IMPROVISO, he trained with Gustavo Miranda (OS BARBIXAS/Commedia à la Carte) and Daniel Nascimento (OS BARBIXAS), with Omar Argentino (IMPROTOUR), Laura Doornerweerd (IMPRO AMSTERDAM) and Stephanie Jacob (The PIT-NYC), among others. He participated as a guest improviser at the IRREVERENTE festival (LISBON INTERNATIONAL IMPROVISATION FESTIVAL) in 2022, 2024 and 2025. He co-created and co-founded the improv comedy group IMPROVISTO in 2014. In 2016, he co-created and co-produced NIM - FESTIVAL NOITES IMPREVISTAS, a festival in Queluz dedicated to the best of improv comedy in Portugal. He was a guest teacher/improviser at the ImproTresk festival (Impro BRNO, Czech Republic). He regularly works with corporate improvisation, giving training and facilitating training sessions through the sharing and insights provided by improvisational theatre, and as an actor in role plays for emotional training, counting among his main clients the PESTANA GROUP , PWC and LUSÍADAS HOSPITALS , and has worked in Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, New York, Orlando and Miami. More recently, on the South Bank of the Tagus River, he gave an improvisation workshop at CEA, and improvisational theatre classes at the ArteViva school in Barreiro.
Ana Sofia Santos
Master's degree in Theatre and Community and Bachelor's degree in Acting from the Lisbon School of Theatre and Cinema. She attended the Performing Arts course at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon and completed the Acting Training course at Espaço Evoé. Since 2008, she has been an actress, director, and producer of children's shows with the Cativar Association and an actress in shows by Teatro Alternativo and the Cepa Torta company. Since 2016, she has been an actress in staged readings with Teatro Maizum. Since 2004, she has worked professionally with directors Pablo Fernando, Susana Cecílio, Ricardo Gageiro, Júlio Martín da Fonseca, and Luca.
Aprea, João Lourenço, Henrique Félix, among others. She has been a theatre and dramatic expression instructor since 2007, working with children, young people and adults. Since 2006, she has worked as a voice-over artist and narrator in animated series and films, live-action and advertising. She has trained in classical, modern and contemporary dance since 1989, and in recent years has trained in Improvisational Theatre, Silent Masks, Commedia Dell'Arte, Art Education, Participatory Theatre, Physical Theatre, among others.
André Sobral
A Portuguese improviser, he is a member of the ImprovFX group and performs with various improv companies and projects in Portugal. He is the co-founder and artistic director of the Irreverent Festival — Lisbon International Improv Festival , a space he created to bring the Portuguese improv community closer to artists from around the world, promoting shows, workshops, and multidisciplinary encounters. He is also part of the Ohana European improv network , where he collaborates on international residencies and exchanges.
His journey in improvisation began in 2007, during a European volunteer program in Sweden, through theatre-sports. Since then, he has been exploring various artistic languages — from physical theatre and commedia dell'arte to martial arts, which he also practiced — bringing to the stage an approach rich in body, presence, and listening.
Always driven by a strong sense of community, André believes that improvisation isn't limited to the stage: it's an exercise in mutual acceptance, sharing, and discovery. For him, everyone can improvise—you just need to find the right tools and break free from the rules imposed by society. It's this vision that leads him to build bridges between improvisers and non-improvisers, fostering encounters where ideas, experiences, and adventures transform into collective creation.
