Donna Risa (1970) is artistic co-director of Stut theatre. Before joining Stut in 2000, she worked for ten years as a youth worker in the multicultural neighbourhoods of Hooggraven and Lombok, combining that career with a full time drama teacher’s study at the Utrecht School of the Arts (1991-1996).
While working in Lombok she met Marlies Hautvast, one of the co-founders of Stut, who inspired her to change careers. Her first project for Stut was ‘Curls’ (2000), a play with Moroccan youth at Delta College in the troubled neighbourhood of Zuilen. She was also involved in Garden of Secrets and more recently she directed Maxima Comes! with residents of Rivierenwijk (a project that CAL documented in 2006, and Meisjesstad [girls’ town], a play with and about teenage mothers that opens in April 2008.

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