Tanya HERMSEN (NL/BE)

Tanya Hermsen was born in 1969 in Belgium and studied in Eindhoven (NL) at the School of Theater and at “Das Arts” in Amsterdam. In 2002, she completed her training with a performance entitled “Lost Memories” and the documentary “This fairy tale started on the 28th of February 1965.”
She has directed at Kopergietery/Speeltheater Gent, Victoria in Gent, as well as De Wetten van Kepler and Den Bosch. Here, she also staged Marius von Mayenburg’s play “Parasiten.” She is also co-author of the book “Ik heb tegen jou” that was published by Clavis in 2003. Tanya Hermsen collaborated closely with author Paul Pouvreur to develop the production “Lilith@online,” which was invited to be performed at the annual Flemish-Danish Theater Festival in 2001.

As an actress, Tanya Hermsen has appeared in productions by Theu Boermans and Paul Vermeulen Windtsand. In 2006, she took part in the DE BANK project at Victoria, a residency that enabled her to work closely together with five other artists over the course of two years and to foster her own growth as an actress. Tanya Hermsen has conducted various workshops for Theater Victoria, Contact Theatre Manchester (UK), Teaterhuset Avant Garden Trondheim (N), Sirenos International Festival Vilnius (LIT) and Schlachthaus in Bern (CH). She is currently working on her first theater text, “Bakje Troost,” together with Gerardjan Rijnders from Toneelgroep Amsterdam.