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BIO/CV

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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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