Creative Producer
Agent & Creative Producer
A founder of two business, MSFT LTD and DYSPLA CIC.
An artist as well as an agent and producer.
An award-winning writer and director.
Lennie Varvarides is a first generation Cypriot, born in London to immigrant parents and brought up in the rag trade. Lennie studied Visual Arts at UAL and has an MA in Writing for Performance from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
MSFT LTD was incorporated in 2011 and represents professional actors for the entertainment industry. and DYSPLA was incorporated in 2013 to produce and develop the work of Neurodivergent storymakers with continued project funding from the Arts Council England.
DYSPLA produces film, theatre and installation and is an advocacy for the Neurodivergent creative advantage. As Creative Director, Lennie runs DYSPLA_Chat, a peer-to-peer monthly gathering of like-minded Neurodivergent creatives, to discuss Neurodivergent creativity, methodology, and strategy.
In 2018 they completed a six-month mentorship placement with WFTV, (Women in Film and Television), and now mixes up art forums in her creative work that floats between the commercial and art world like a mermaid.
Lennie has been a panel guest of several reputable organisations, including the BFI (Busting the Bias, 2018), Virtual Salon Series, (The Bigger Picture, 2019) Aesthetica Short Film Festival (2020), The Royal Television Society (Challenging the Status Quo, 2021) and Earls Court Film Festival (2021), was nominated for the Stereotype Buster category at Genius Within’s Celebrating Neurodiversity Awards (2022), were chosen as one of the UK’s Top 50 Influential Neurodivergent Women by Women Beyond the Box in 2019 and selected by the British Dyslexia Association to share her profile of being a Neurodiveregent Creative as part of the Dyslexia Awareness Week, 2021. Currently, they sit on the Advisory Board of the Mayor of Londons Liberty Festival (2021-2023), the flagship programme celebrating D/deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent Artists.
Lennie Varvarides
Founder of MSFT Management & DYSPLAAgent & Creative Producer
A founder of two business, MSFT LTD and DYSPLA CIC.
An artist as well as an agent and producer.
An award-winning writer and director.
Lennie Varvarides is a first generation Cypriot, born in London to immigrant parents and brought up in the rag trade. Lennie studied Visual Arts at UAL and has an MA in Writing for Performance from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
MSFT LTD was incorporated in 2011 and represents professional actors for the entertainment industry. and DYSPLA was incorporated in 2013 to produce and develop the work of Neurodivergent storymakers with continued project funding from the Arts Council England.
DYSPLA produces film, theatre and installation and is an advocacy for the Neurodivergent creative advantage. As Creative Director, Lennie runs DYSPLA_Chat, a peer-to-peer monthly gathering of like-minded Neurodivergent creatives, to discuss Neurodivergent creativity, methodology, and strategy.
In 2018 they completed a six-month mentorship placement with WFTV, (Women in Film and Television), and now mixes up art forums in her creative work that floats between the commercial and art world like a mermaid.
Lennie has been a panel guest of several reputable organisations, including the BFI (Busting the Bias, 2018), Virtual Salon Series, (The Bigger Picture, 2019) Aesthetica Short Film Festival (2020), The Royal Television Society (Challenging the Status Quo, 2021) and Earls Court Film Festival (2021), was nominated for the Stereotype Buster category at Genius Within’s Celebrating Neurodiversity Awards (2022), were chosen as one of the UK’s Top 50 Influential Neurodivergent Women by Women Beyond the Box in 2019 and selected by the British Dyslexia Association to share her profile of being a Neurodiveregent Creative as part of the Dyslexia Awareness Week, 2021. Currently, they sit on the Advisory Board of the Mayor of Londons Liberty Festival (2021-2023), the flagship programme celebrating D/deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent Artists.
Lennie loves experimental, multi-disciplinary work that incorporates installations, immersive theatre and moving image work to sculpt the space. She is particularly curious to see how far the role of the audience can be pushed in the live art area.
I am proactive as an artist; writing, producing and directing many DYSPLA projects including the Arts Council England funded ‘You Will Fail Her’, which was selected for the Shape Open 2018 and exhibited at the New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth.
Author of expectations has been selected for the Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2018 and also screened at the Sxrvxve Exhibition, New York, in January 2018.
Washed Up Babies has been shown at 10 festivals around the world and has been officially selected for the International Award the the Bucharest International Dance Film Festival 2018.
Other works include ‘The Taliban Don’t Like My Knickers’ commissioned for the Toronto Fringe; ‘Y&P’ for the Monsters Mavericks Mothers Festival at the Camden Theatre; and commissions for Spaced Festival; B-side Festival and Media Trust.