artists

  • Augusto Boal video now online

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    On 11 January 2008, Augusto Boal officially opened the new studio of Formaat Work Place for Participatory Drama in Rotterdam with an inspired speech about his past and current work in and outside Brazil. In this video, the now 76-year-old pioneer of the Theatre of the Oppressed proved himself to be as vital and humorous […]

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  • Donna Risa

    Donna is artistic co-director of Stut theatre. 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 for the Arts (1991-1996).

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  • Stefan van Hees

    Stefan van Hees has been involved in Rotterdams wijktheater productions as Fawaka, Jebbel, Players, Full Colour, Crime City, Pendrecht, and the two Dry Dock productions.

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  • Anthony Heidweiller

    Anthony is artistic director of the Yo! Opera Festival & Laboratory and developed from singer in the chorus of the Dutch Opera to freelance opera maker.

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  • Julia Victoria Escobar Holguín

    Multidisciplinary artist from Colombia and founder of Caja Ludica in Guatemala City.

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  • Hans Lein

    Hans Lein is the director of Baba, a play he made with Moroccan youths and their fathers for Rotterdams Wijktheater.

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  • Titia Bouwmeester

    Titia Bouwmeester calls herself a theatre director, visual artist, project developer and generator of ideas.

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  • Jos Thie

    Since 2003 Jos Thie is a theatre director specializing in large outdoor community spectacles.

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  • Marlies Hautvast

    Marlies is a co-founder of Stut theatre.

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  • Peter van den Hurk

    In 2001, 2003 and 2005 Paul van den Hurk organized the Rotterdam Wijktheater International Community Theatre Festivals.

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  • Paul de Vries

    Paul is senior lecturer in theatre and education at the Utrecht School for the Arts. He is also coordinator of the preparatory track of the Utrecht Centre for the Arts.

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  • Jos Zandvliet

    Jos worked for thirty years in theatre group Dogtroep and was its artistic director from 1990 until 1995. Since then he continues to create large outdoor rituals and has regularly worked with prison inmates.

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  • Luc Opdebeeck

    Luc is artistic director of Formaat, a workshop for participatory drama. Since 1989 he has been conducting theatre of the oppressed projects in Holland and abroad.

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  • Jos Bours

    While teaching dramaturgy at the Utrecht theatre academy, in 1977 he co-founded Stut Theatre in Utrecht and has been its artistic director and main playwight ever since.

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