Megan Louise Wilson and Jeffrey Mundell will perform in Room 13, the experiential horror co-produced by Immersive Octopus and Battersea Arts Centre from 16 October to 1 November. The full creative team for the world premiere has been announced with them.
Megan Louise Wilson and Jeffrey Mundell are the two performers who will carry Room 13, the world premiere that opens at Battersea Arts Centre on 16 October and closes on 1 November. The venue named them today alongside the creative team assembled for the piece.
Room 13 is an experiential horror, made as a co-production between Immersive Octopus and Battersea Arts Centre, and it is set in a fictional world rooted in the aftermath of the fire that swept through the building on Friday 13 March 2015. Folklore, local paranormal cases and the supernatural all feed into it, and it forms part of the venue’s 2026 autumn and winter season.
The story it tells is an invented one. In the days after the fire, builders find a sealed chamber in the original stone structure, and what is inside brings the renovation to a halt. Eleven years on, the door is opened again, and the audience is summoned by the Circle of the Veil, a secret society of paranormal investigators, to work out what has been happening in the building. Live performers, special effects and immersive design combine to supply the jump scares.
Megan Louise Wilson graduated from the Oxford School of Drama in 2019, and their stage credits include The Mousetrap in the West End, Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort Of) on its UK tour, Juniper and Jules at the Pleasance, Pool (No Water) at the Royal Court, Twelfth Night at Theatre on Kew and Blood On Your Hands at the Cockpit Theatre. They also worked on Doctor Who: Time Fracture for Immersive Everywhere, and appeared in the BBC Radio 4 drama Next Season.
Jeffrey Mundell took a drama degree in South Africa with a bias towards physical theatre, and recent credits include Landship, an official selection at the Raindance Film Festival 2026, and Channel 5’s The Good Ship Murder. The stage and screen work either side of those runs from Mike Harris in the rhino-poaching documentary Horn to a one-person Hamlet performed in London and Roy Batty in Secret Cinema’s Blade Runner.
Director and conceiver Tom Maller, who founded Immersive Octopus, arrives with a run of credits that takes in Peaky Blinders: The Rise, Doctor Who: Time Fracture, The Paddington Bear Experience and the Secret Cinema stagings of Casino Royale, Blade Runner and Romeo + Juliet.
“At Immersive Octopus we tell stories that place the audience at the centre of the experience. We use performance, special effects and gameplay to transport you away from the real world. In Room 13 we do this on an intimate scale, blurring the lines between fact and fiction and inviting you to bravely take a step into the unknown. It’s also a privilege to be working with Battersea Arts Centre. As one of London’s most atmospheric buildings, with a rich history to respond to, alongside a long tradition of supporting artists making unusual work, it is the perfect place to create a piece like this.” — Tom Maller
The rest of the team is Bells Pendergast as script writer, whose Secret Cinema credits include Guardians of the Galaxy and Stranger Things; designer Christian Ellinas for Niche Productions, who worked on The Traitors: Live Experience; sound designer Matt Farthing, of Phantom Peak, Time Run and Sherlock: The Game Is Now; lighting designer Max Sharp, who lit Punchdrunk Enrichment’s Lost Lending Library; and costume designer Anna Dixon. Charlie Rayner is production manager for Niche Productions, Stephen Patry-Makin is executive producer, Joe Mills is producer and game designer, and Tristan Rogers is co-game designer.
“At Battersea Arts Centre, we’re always excited by artists who reimagine what theatre can be, and Room 13 is a brilliant example of that. Tom Maller and the team at Immersive Octopus have created a thrilling experience that transforms a single room at the front of our building into the setting for a bold new story, drawing inspiration from its unique history.” — Tarek Iskander, artistic director and chief executive of Battersea Arts Centre
Room 13 runs at Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, from 16 October to 1 November 2026, with press performances on the evening of Tuesday 20 October. It plays in timed slots and lasts around 35 minutes. Age guidance is 16+, and under-18s must be accompanied by an adult. Opening-weekend tickets are Pay What You Can, with a recommended price of £16; standard tickets are £20 and peak tickets £24.50.
