David Callan

David Callan is an actor, comedian, voice artist, podcaster, teacher and ex-spy who graduated from ASIO in 1993 with majors in counterterrorism, counter-espionage and clowning. His voice can be heard everywhere from ads and animated series to ABC’s Media Watch, while as an actor he’s played coppers, criminals, lawyers and even Peter Sellers (twice) as well as innumerable appearances as an improvisor and stand-up comic.

David has managed to combine his previous life as a spy with his current life as a comic when he created his smash-hit one-man show “I Spied – True Confessions of an ex-ASIO Spook” which garnered the only ever 6-out-of-5 star rating along with Best in the Fest nominations in the Adelaide and Perth Fringes, and the Adelaide Fringe Critics’ Choice Award. In 2020, he was commissioned to create a 12 episode podcast around I Spied and four years and 170 episodes later, he can be heard every Monday dissecting, explaining and generally deriding the goings on in the world of spooks, terrorists and global political intrigue.