Irreverente Festival
Irreverente Cast 2025
This year, we made an extra effort to bring together the Portuguese-speaking community, and that’s why we’ll have two casts: one performing in Portuguese and the other in English. Each member of our cast will be teaching workshops, directing and performing in shows, and sharing worldviews around our theme — 'IMAGINARY WORLDS: BRIDGES BETWEEN REALITY AND IMAGINATION'.
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
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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 Cardigni (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 GarcÃa 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
Lena Breuer (GERMANY)
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND GUEST TEACHER
Workshop I love you, Baby. (love, attraction and relationships) - EN
Director PICTURES OF US (A unique improvised show where real memories come to life from family albums, mixing emotion, laughter and imagination.) - EN
Tom Tollenaere (BELGIUM)
MUSICAL DIRECTOR AND MUSICIAN AT 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.
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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
Davi Salazar (BRAZIL)
CAST IN PORTUGUESE
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Workshop SILENCE AND IMPRO (Exploring how the absence of words can expand the creation of fictional worlds and universes in theatrical improvisation) - PT/EN
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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
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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.) - EN
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Gabriel 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
Mario Abel Costa (PORTUGAL)
CAST IN PORTUGUESE
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Workshop: IRREVERENT AUDIENCE (A challenge to active listening while exploring the relationship between chorus and discord, the position of the audience versus that of the improviser, and the tension born around an invisible show—where the audience’s imagination takes center stage and finds its voice.) – PT/EN
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Director/Teacher of the Mixed Team: MULTINVERSO (What if every choice created a new reality? In this improvisation show, the actors leap between dimensions where small changes give birth to entirely new worlds.) – PT
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Exhibition/Sharing: IMPROVISATION – AN ART FOR EVERYONE, WILL IT BE FOR ALL? (Let us imagine a world where everyone has access to culture.) – PT
Rui Pedro Neto (PORTUGAL)
CAST IN PORTUGUESE
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Workshop: PLAYING LIKE A CHILD
(Training the ability to step into a place of imagination and play, allowing the story to emerge from that space, instead of letting the act of storytelling take control of what happens on stage.) – PT/EN -
Director/Teacher of the Mixed Team: IMAGINARY… OR REAL? WORLDS
(Starting from their own personal experiences, emotions on stage, and of course, their imagination, we will build worlds.) – PT/EN -
Exhibition/Sharing: THE CLOWN IN IMPROV THEATRE (Actor, improviser, and clown — just different faces of the same polygon.) – PT