Robert Pacitti

Robert Pacitti is Artistic Director of Pacitti Company and creator of the SPILL Festival of Performance – London’s premier biennale of experimental theatre and live art. Having initially trained as a fine art painter Robert began making live art performances and experimental theatre in 1988. With Pacitti Company, Robert has spent nearly two decades producing and touring an award winning body of radical performance works worldwide. Across the year 1999/2000 Robert was awarded a Live Art Development Agency One-To-One bursary, and as part of this was mentored by German artist Raimund Hoghe. A highly experienced facilitator and teacher Pacitti continues to lead workshops and residencies worldwide. He has sat on a range of selection panels, including Theatre Production Fund for Arts Council England, the Live Art Development Agency, Artsadmin, the Lux, and the London Filmmakers Co-op. For the past three years he has been a London selector for the National Review Of Live Art's 'Elevator' programme. Through Pacitti Company he is a member of Informal European Theatre Meeting network (IETM). A co-founder of the New Work Network Pacitti also regularly contributes internationally to a broad span of publications, conferences and other performance related cultural activities. He and his partner currently live in London.