She calls herself a Witch — How Effie Spence turns her dreams and nightmares into art

Effie Spence creates art that feels like memory, magic, and raw emotion all at once. In this candid, wide-ranging conversation, she shares how dreams, ancestral stories, and embodied intuition fuel her work across theater, poetry, and film. From the emotional excavation of Actorholics Anonymous to the surreal story telling of her short films, like “Bubble & Squeak", and the deeply personal revelations in her docuseries Motherlands, Effie reveals what it means to create from the gut — and the in-between.