Irreverente Cast 2025

We invited 11 incredible artists from all over the world and we can´t be happier!

Each member of the Irreverente cast will teach a workshop, direct and perform shows, and will share their view on our theme: Imaginary worlds.

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Billy Kissa (Greece / Belgium) - INTERNATIONAL CAST

Workshop WHAT A (GREEK) TRAGEDY! (A World of Magic, Mythical Creatures, Gods and Immortals) - EN
Director of THE DARK AGE OF LOVE (A world in which a group of people will have to survive after the apocalypse... and BETRAYAL.) - EN
Exhibition/Share ALMOST EQUALS (Almost equal - But I will always be a Greek, woman, artist, immigrant) - PT

Maro Lesioti (Greece) - INTERNATIONAL CAST

Workshop THE ODYSSEY: EPIC POETRY AS A TRANSFORMATIVE MEDIUM (The poetic world of the balance between reality and myth) - EN
Director of THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (Fragmented, fluid and unstable worlds) - EN
Exhibition/Sharing BLURRING THE LINES: BRINGING SCRIPTED THEATER AND IMPROV TOGETHER - EN

Natali Anna (Spain, Argentina and USA) - INTERNATIONAL CAST

Workshop CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? (Creating Worlds of Tension and Intrigue) - EN
Director/Teacher of the Mixed Team CAN WE HAVE A WORD? (THE GAME SHOW) (In each round, words redefine reality, meanings and new vocabularies are created that lead to the construction of New Worlds) - EN
Exhibition/Sharing DIDASKALIAS IN IMPROV: USING STAGE DIRECTIONS TO BUILD COLLECTIVE DRAMATURGY (Didascalias in impro: Stage direction and creation of dramaturgy.) -EN

Rocío Barquilla (SPAIN) - INTERNATIONAL CAST

- Workshop YES, AND... SET SAIL! A JOURNEY INTO ONE PIECE (The world-building work of author Eiichiro Oda, the complexity and depth of the characters.) - EN
- Director/Teacher of the Mixed Team IN THE SPIRIT OF GHIBLI (Worlds where the mundane and the fantastic intertwine perfectly, experiencing wonders in everyday moments. ) - EN
- Exhibition/Sharing CREATING REALISTIC WORLDS WITHOUT CULTURAL DEFAULTS (Can we make improvisation more universal?) - EN

Soledad Cardgni (ARGENTINA/SPAIN) - INTERNATIONAL CAST

Workshop PHYSICAL SURREALISM (Worlds that combine dance and theater in order to tell stories, express emotions without the usual bodies) - EN
Director "100 YEARS OF..." (Worlds where time flows non-linearly, memories take physical form and familiar objects come to life. Worlds within the Gabriel García Márquez Universe) - EN
Exhibition/Sharing THE SPACE BETWEEN US: TOUCH, LIMITS, AND CREATION (Physical contact in improvisation shapes the creation and inhabitation of imaginary worlds.) - EN

Davi Salazar Coutinho (BRAZIL) - CAST IN PORTUGUESE

Workshop SILENCE AND IMPRO (Exploring how the absence of words can expand the creation of fictional worlds and universes in theatrical improvisation) - PT/EN
Director/Teacher of the Mixed Team BETWEEN WORLDS - STORIES THAT NEVER EXISTED (What if fantastic worlds were just a step away? Where mysterious creatures, impossible technologies and unknown forces exist?) - PT
Exhibition/Sharing FANTASTIC WORLDS, HUMAN RELATIONS: THE ESSENCE OF IMPRO (Even in fantastic worlds, it is the emotions, choices and relationships between the characters that truly connect the audience to the story.) - PT

Gabriel Vinicius Garcia Caropreso (BRAZIL) - CAST IN PORTUGUESE

SONORA Workshop - Sound in Improvisation (Explores the construction of sound universes) PT/EN
Director WHAT WE LEFT BEHIND (On a ship carrying the last survivors of Earth, memories of the lost world come to life.) - EN
Exhibition/Sharing ART AND ITS REVOLUTIONS: TRANSFORMING REALITY THROUGH CULTURE (The power of art to create new worlds, questions the established order and proposes a different future.) PT

Luana Proença (Brazil) - CAST IN PORTUGUESE

IMPRO AND TAROT Workshop (The workshop uses images and cycles of tarot journeys to create new worlds wrapped in mythology and mysticism from imagery.) - EN
Director of THE CARPET (It's a discovery about how space itself can be a game and create new worlds.) - EN
Exhibition/Sharing THE DIRECTORAL ROLE OF THOSE WHO IMPROVISE (Those who improvise, act, write and direct.)- PT/EN

Mario Abel Costa (PORTUGAL) - CAST IN PORTUGUESE

IRREVERENT PUBLIC Workshop (Challenge to active listening by exploring the relationship between chorus and discoursal, the position of the audience vs. that of the improviser, and the conflict generated around an invisible show, where the audience's imagination becomes the protagonist and gains voice.) - PT/EN
Director/Teacher of the Mixed Team MULTINVERSO (What if every choice unfolded a new reality? In this improvisational performance, actors leap between dimensions where small changes create entirely new worlds.) - PT
Exhibition/Sharing IMPROVISATION - AN ART FOR EVERYONE, WILL IT BE FOR EVERYONE? (Let's imagine a world where everyone has access to culture.) - PT

Rui Pedro Neto (PORTUGAL)- CAST IN PORTUGUESE

PLAYING LIKE A CHILD Workshop (Training the ability to go to a place of imagination and play, letting the story emerge through these, rather than letting the telling of a story take over the events on stage.) - PT/EN
Director/Teacher of the Mixed Team IMAGINARY WORLDS... OR REAL WORLDS? (Based on your own individual experiences, your feelings on stage and of course your imagination, we will build worlds) - PT
Exhibition/Sharing THE CLOWN IN IMPROVISATION THEATER (Actor, improviser and clown. Just faces of the same polygon.) - PT

Tom Tollenaere (Belgium)

Musical Director and Musician of IRREVERENTE 2025

Tom Tollenaere was introduced to improv in 1997 and was instantly hooked. Tom is a Belgian improviser and musician. He is the founder and artistic director of the Royal Improphonic Orchestra & Theatre , which specializes in long-form improv music. Between 1999 and 2005 he was the artistic director of The Lunatics , one of Belgium's oldest short-form collectives.