Annelore Smits (b. 1988) studied Dutch and Spanish at Ghent University and teaches and directs at the Toneelacademie Maastricht. Together with a number of classmates, she founded Cie Augustus and wrote the script for their first production, Julia, which played at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival. Annelore works as a theatre maker for the social-artistic organization De Figuranten in Menen.
Paul Govaerts (b. 1982) studied film at Sint-Lukas in Brussels. He has worked as a scenarist for various production houses and developed the series Koning der Belgen, about King Leopold I of Belgium, with the support of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund. Govaerts writes plays that he stages himself. In 2016, he made Dubbelmens, a musical monologue about a man who is addicted to addictions and in 2018 he staged Startschot, about the radicalised figure Gavrilo Princip. He also wrote Crisis, about a family that struggles with objects, and Oorlog, about a family that struggles with fake news. For Govaerts, language is a tool for making things clear and unclear.
Koen Verheijden (b. xxxx) studied directing at the Toneelacademie Maastricht. He makes fiction films and investigatory theatre, for which he writes his own scripts. His work is documentary, in that he does journalistic research on social themes which he then fictionalizes. The atmosphere is often melancholy. Currently he is working on a show about the Dutch East Indies, Nina Bobo, produced by Theater de Generator in Leiden. In this show, Koen tries to come closer to his Indonesian roots, wondering how the pieces of the puzzle of that complex history fit together and what role his grandmother played in it.
