Lennie Varvarides

Aside from being the Founder and CEO of MSFT Management, Lennie Varvarides is an award-winning writer, director, poet, performer, and festival founder.

As an Award-Winning Filmmaker, Lennie is the Director and Creative Producer of DYSPLA, a studio producing the work of Neurodivergent storymakers. Funded by 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.

Lennie has been a panel guest of several reputable organisations, including the BFI (Busting the Bias, 2018), Aesthetica Short Film Festival (2020), The Royal Television Society (Challenging the Status Quo, 2021) and Earls Court Film Festival (2021). She was 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 Neurodivergent Creative as part of the Dyslexia Awareness Week, 2021. Currently Lennie is a member of the The Liberty Festival’s Advisory Group, the Mayor of London’s flagship programme celebrating D/deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent Artists. She is delighted to be nominated for the Stereotype Buster category at Genius Within’s Celebrating Neurodiversity Awards (2022).

Lennie resides in London with her husband and daughter and is currently working on her PhD.