Bio
I am Brecht, born in Hasselt - Belgium on Monday, October 7th, 1985 at 9am. Yep, a morning person. Since 2015, I live and work in Rotterdam. I studied Theatre Sciences in Ghent, with an Erasmus-year in Utrecht, and Stagecraft at RITCS in Brussels.
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My first theatre success was reading out loud a children's booklet in front of the kindergarten class, as a writer the publication of my essay about our school trip to theme park De Efteling in the school paper was my first success.
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When I was 14, I joined youth theatre Kaboekie in Zonhoven, my rescue as a lost teenager. I found a safe space there, where I could be my for the full 100% and where I could dive into the power of theater: the joy, the playfulness, creating, being together. What I found there, I pass on in my own projects now.
In 2006, I made my first theater show: Dood in Venetië. Tekst theater with live music. Later on, I started to look for more encounters. That started with my mobile radio i Play in 2015.
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With visual artist Hans Bossmann, I went into the neighborhood with Zelfportretten van het Oude Westen, together with Karavaan I set up Het Ministerie van Alkmaarse Zaken in Alkmaar.
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From 2016 to 2021, I worked at Theater Babel Rotterdam, a company with actors with and without disabilities. I learned a lot as a theater maker and even more as a human being.
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Since 2021, I work as an independent theater maker. I created En wat doe jij? and Ik moet u iets vertellen and founded Theatre Reading Club 010 in 2022.
Recent projects
EN WAT DOE JIJ?
In co-production with Karavaan, I researched the person behind the word unemployed. This resulted in the show En wat doe jij? in which experts in exerpience and professional performers told their story together.
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En wat doe jij? was performed at Karavaan Festival 2023.
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More info here.
THEATER READING CLUB 010
In January 2022, we founded the theatre reading club in Leeszaal West. At the end of the same year, a new theater reading club started in Theater 't Kapelletje. In 2023 we started a third club at Theater Zuidplein.
We focus on one text in every meeting, Brecht or Mau is the host and an artist from Rotterdam is guest reader.
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More info here.