Dyspla

DYSPLA is an award winning London based arts oragnisation founded by Lennie Varvarides, with Kazimir Bielecki as Artistic Director. DYSPLA have run a series of successful projects with supporting from Arts Council England since 2013. Their signature slate includes: Surgery Script, DYSPLA Chat, The DYSPLA International Film Festival, The Storymakers Residency, Words Not Walls, Poetry Garden, and Enfield is Disabled. They advocate for the existence of a/the Neurodivergent Aesthetic and believe Neurodivergent people are destined to tell great stories. A current PhD Candidate at RCSSD. We are dedicated to propagting the Neurodivergent Aesthetic, an aesthetic defined through the cognitive emience of Neurodivergence. DYSPLA works internationally in film, performative installation, VR and digital art, to develop Britain’s Neurodivergent Storytellers who are both established artists and early career, and is committed to promoting the creative benefits of Neurodivergence in the Creative Industries. Since 2010 Lennie Varvarides has supported over 200 writers and directly worked with over 900 artists through Sunday Surgery Scripts which is the inhouse script development arm of DYSPLA. Surgery Scripts is primarily designed for Dyslexic & Neurodivergent creatives, however all writers are welcome to submit work for development via the program. Surgery Scripts offer all the benefits of the rehearsal room process together with peer feedback, while democratising the script development process making it both affordable as well as accessible to all. Since the Covid Pandemic in 2020 Sunday Surgery Scripts has been put on hold hoping to be back in the summer of 2023