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.