I graduated from the BA Theatre Directing at the Academy of Theatre and Dance Amsterdam in 2024. Born and raised in Berlin, I have developed my own theatrical language in the Netherlands.

In my work I am looking for a form of radical, violent honesty. I want my characters to be able to say and feel the things most of us don’t dare to say or feel in real life. I believe we talk too much without saying enough, and my performances try to open a space where saying everything becomes possible — vocally, physically, and musically.

I often depart from my own unresolved feelings and turn them into radical, philosophical, psychological thought experiments and to therefore ask questions I don’t have answers to myself.

Would it not have been better for a boy that grew up as a dog to stay a dog? Isn’t it the most radical form of love to commit collective suicide?

My process is about looking at these questions from every angle, from every perspective. Death and difficult interpersonal dynamics are themes that keep returning in my work.

I like to really develop works from the ground up, exploring them in rehearsal and research, rather than starting from a pre-written script. It is very important to me not to lose myself in my own work. I need to look at it — and at myself — from the outside to find a blunt kind of humor in the most painful topics. I work in a way that binds the whole team to the same question, so everyone is fully immersed in the artistic research. Improvisation is an essential part of my processes.

My goal is to create a whole universe in which all my works exist. I do this with my closest collaborators: composer and sound designer David Knap, and video designer and scenographer Charlie Smeets.

I am inspired by Yorgos Lanthimos, Gaspar Noé, SIGNA, Kafka, and Dennis Kelly.

I have collaborated with Steven van Watermeulen (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam) and worked with SIGNA on their productions Das letzte Jahr at the Wiener Festwochen and Das 13. Jahr at Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. Most recently, I have also collaborated with Johan Simons and Elsie de Brauw.