BIO/CV

Represented by Adam Walsh The Divergent Talent Group
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Spotlight link: https://app.spotlight.com/9979-9084-7263
Dre Spisto is a queer, autistic Venezuelan artist working across live performance, film, and multimedia storytelling. Their practice unfolds through a lens of anarchic charisma—embracing unpredictability, softness, and embodied disruption as tools for dismantling normative performance structures. Dre is particularly drawn to neuroqueer approaches that prioritise access as methodology, valuing sensory immersion and fragmentary, affective dramaturgies over linear narrative.
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Trained at LISPA (now Arthaus Berlin) in Lecoq and embodied practices with a focus on clown through mask, Dre’s work merges movement, improvisation, and autobiographical character play with live and projected film. Their performances have been described as genre-defying, exuberant, and intimate—often moving between surrealism, tenderness, and subversive humour.
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Recent works include 50 Ways to Kill a Slug, a surreal, sensory live art cabaret performance exploring slowness, uselessness, and anticapitalist kinship through the figure of the garden slug. Funded by Arts Council England and Shape Arts, the show is currently programmed at Battersea Arts Centre, Soho Theatre, and The Wardrobe Theatre. Other credits include El Dizzy Beast (Filipa Bragança Award nominee), Butch Princesa (nominated for Best Cabaret, Best Performance Artist, and Best Theatre Show), Miss Venezuela, and the Tylor and Vincent series.
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Dre appears as the shapeshifter in The Stimming Pool, an experimental film co-created by the Neurocultures Collective and artist-filmmaker Steven Eastwood. Currently screening in UK cinemas, the film offers a poetic encounter with environments hostile and soothing to autistic experience, through the lens of an ‘autistic camera’.
Their work has been presented at Jupiter Artland, Soho Theatre, CASA Festival, The British Museum, Arcola Theatre, Brixton House, CPT, Shoreditch Town Hall, Quench Gallery, Shape Arts, Ugly Duck, and ICA. They also collaborated with Sweatmother on Dyke Just Do It (ICA), and led workshops at Turner Contemporary for OSE’s public programme.
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As a curator and producer, Dre has worked with disability arts organisation Unlimited and as Creative Programmes Producer at People United, producing projects such as We Keep Each Other Fed, Queer Zines of Care, and Soft Fascination. They also run Snug Club, a queer experimental film night in Margate supporting emerging filmmakers, in partnership with Margate Pride. Dre currently teaches on the MA in Theatre for Community and Education at Mountview Academy of Performing Arts and runs Anarchic Charisma, a neuroqueer clown lab based in Margate.
Education
LISPA [ArtHaus Berlin] 13-15
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Devising Theatre & Performance Lecoq
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SOAS University of London 09-12
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History of Art and Archaeology
Ravenscourt Theatre School 06-08
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Performance Art
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Further Training and Mentors:
Spymonkey, Dan Lees, Lucy Hopkins, Elf Lyons (Soho Comedy Labs), Betty Grumble, Jonathan Young (Clown Through Mask), Angela De Castro, Ursula Martinez, Deanna Fleysher
solo
EL DIZZY BEAST [live show] CASA Festival, Brixton House Theatre, Papaya Fest , Soho Theatre, Brighton Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe 2023
Performer + Deviser
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ilysm [live performance]
Performance Artist
@Disturbance, Ugly Duck 2023
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Dreish Museum [live performance] Shape Arts Commission
Performance Artist
British Museum
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Remote_CRTL [music tech and performance]
A Creative Research & Development Residency with Mi.Mu gloves by Imogen Heap July 2021 - October 2021
Glover
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ISLA/ISLAND [shortfilm] CASA Commisions 2020 -2022
Film-maker
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BUTCH PRINCESA [live show] Edinburgh Fringe, CASA Festival, Papaya Festival 2019
Performer + Deviser
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MISS VENEZUELA [live show] Edinburgh Fringe and Berlin Fringe 2018
Performer + Deviser
duo
50 WAYS TO KILL A SLUG [live show]
Battersea Arts Centre, Soho Theatre, Wardrobe Theatre 2025
Jupiter Rising Fest, Quench Gallery 2023
Performer + Deviser + Slug
Arts Council Funded and Shape Arts NDMAC Funded
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TYLOR AND VINCENT [live and digital performance]
The Depot Residency, DARE Festival, CPT 2021, @Disturbance 2018-2019
Film-maker + Performer + Deviser + Legend
Arts Council Funded
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BEARS AT A PICNIC [live and pre-recorded radio] 2018-2020
Host + Producer
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WAITING FOR IT [live show] Edinburgh Fringe, Berlin Fringe 2016 -2018
Performer + Deviser
COLLAB
The Stimming Pool [feature film] BFI Film Festival 2025
Performer +Deviser
Sweatmother - Dyke Just Do It [ live performance] ICA 2023
Performer + Deviser
Maïa - Lake Burst [performance film] 2023
Movement Director
Ted Rogers - Valentine [live show] TKE Studios 2023
Movement Director
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ZIAH ZIAH [live show] POW 2023
Movement Director
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JESY NELSON - BAD THING [music video] Untold Studios 2023
Movement Director
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@DISTURBANCE - [Performance Art Programme] Ugly Duck 2023
Mentor
LUCY MCCORMICK: LUCY AND FRIENDS [live show] The Yard Theatre 2022,Lucy Mccormick
Show Daddy + Deviser
LUCY MCCORMICK: WORK IN PROGRESS [ R&D] The Yard Theatre 2021, Lucy Mccormick
Deviser + Performer
THE TWO OF US [live show] Theatre Delicatessen 2019, MarianaandMalena,
Dramaturg
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DJ LAG - DRUMMING [music video] 2018
Movement Director
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POKEMON G.O.A.T [immersive show] The Roundhouse, John Bercavitch 2018
Deviser + Performer
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OUMOU SANGARE - YERE FAGA [ music video] 2016
Movement Director and Casting
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SPARE THE POETS - MILK TEETH [live show] The Roundhouse 2015
Writer + Performer
production
Unlimited [Arts Commissioner] 2024-2025
Develop Manager
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People United [ radical care arts organisation] 2022 - 2023
Creative Programmes Producer
Winner of the Calouste Gulbenkian Award 2023
SNUG CLUB [queer film night] Margate 2021 - Present
Producer + Curator +Mentor
QUEER CLOWNS [workshops] Deanna Fleysher and Lucy Hopkins 2019 - 2021
Producer
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BRAZILIAN WAX XXL [live event] Vault Festival 2019
Co-producer
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BETTY GRUMBLE: LOVE & ANGER [live show] Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Producer
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TRYGVE VS A BABY [live show] Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Co-producer
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PORN LAID BARE [factual documentary series] BBC THREE 2019
Access Researcher
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SISTER [short online films] BBC THREE 2016-2017
Researcher + Producer
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BETTY GRUMBLE: SEX CLOWN SAVES THE WORLD 2016
Production Assistant
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THE ONLY WAY IS ETHICS - Emergency Exit Arts 2014
Young Producer
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TEACHIng
ANARCHIC CHARISMA
[Neuroqueer Clown Lab]
Ark Cliftonville Margate 2025
MOUNTVIEW ACADEMY OF THEATRE ARTS
[MA Theatre for Community and Education]
Visiting Lecturer - Artist Survival Guide 2020 - Present
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BRUNEL UNIVERSITY
[Poetry and Performance]
Benjamin Zephaniah
Visiting Lecturer - Performance Poetry 2018-2019
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COOL TAN ARTS
[Poetry]
Visiting workshop leader - Poetry 2016-2017
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