Writer, theatermaker, videographer, voice-over, storyteller
ABOUT
Fien Leysen (1989) studied Literature and Linguistics at the University of Antwerp, where she got her Master's degree in English. After an extra Masters in Literary Studies, she started a new Drama studies at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. In 2017 she finished the studies of WordArt/Drama and received her Master's degree there as well.
Fien started in 2008 as YouTube vlogger and taught herself to film and edit. Meanwhile she has over 28 000 subscriptions. Thanks to her collection of Master degrees and the wonderful studies she was able to follow, she has found her own path, both artistically and technically.
She keeps looking for new ways and forms to tell her story, independent of the medium. Because of this, she often combines different ways of storytelling (writing, performance, video, audio, ...)
Her first theater piece 'That Which is (Not) Gone' combines video, performance and text, and has been touring since 2018 in Belgium and the Netherlands. In 2019 Fien worked as Artist in Residence with theater company Het Nieuwstedelijk (Leuven) for a year, where she made her second piece 'Who We Are'. In 2020 she started the creation of the theater installation 'Numi Yaldati', together with scenographer Manu Siebens. Since 2021 the installation can be seen in museums as well as theaters.
Fiens texts balance between the personal and the poetic and attempt to touch a universal theme. In 2021 a few of her poems were first published in Het Liegend Konijn. She sometimes reads from her work or writes columns for newspapers.
A few of her texts/poems can be found on this website.
2020
* CREATIon THEATER INSTALLATIon
NUMI YALDATI | Fien leysen & manu siebens
* PODCAST KVS METAMORPHOSEs
about Metamorphoses by manuela infante
* PARty for poetry
reading of own work | poetry
(GENT, OOSTENDE, LEUVEN)
* OPINIon piece | DE STANDAARD
* 'DE MENING' | 'The OPINIon' de standaard
5 opinion pieces
tribute to lydia chagoll
* 'Sprekende Ezels' online editie
and summer in O / Party for poetry
* HEt nieuwstedelijk plays "hoe dan ook"
online video-theater during covid19 creation "Concealer", actress in "influencer",
overall final editing and video
* reprise theater performance
“that which is (Not) gone”
* continuation tour “Who we are”
* mentoring students 4 flemish drama-schools / with Freek Mariën / “the greeks” - project KVS and LUCA Drama, royal conservatory Antwerp, RITS Brussel, KASK Gent
* Acte de présence in True Copy
THEATER company BERLIN
hostess/interviewer
* assistance interviews
performance "Man in de Mist",
theater company HetNieuwstedelijk
* research for possible new theater piece by HetNieuwstedelijk
* creation videos "De Maandagavond On Tour" by DeNweTijd /theme: love & sex
* creation text / guest performance
"De Maandagavond on Tour" / DeNweTijd
in De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam 24/02/2020
* recording own text for podcast
DeNweTijd: "De Maandagavond On Tour" https://soundcloud.com/user-148121601/podcast-24ste-maandagavond
2018
*Theater performance "Wat (NIET) Weg is"/ "That which is (not) gone"
*Artistic employee
theater company BERLIN
production "remember the dragons"
*Freelance editing & TRAILERS/TEASERS
THEater company berlin
*MINI-DOCUMENTAry A1000
deNwetijd, hetpaleis
(youth on politics)
2016
*assistant-curator korte golf
oorzaken festival, de brakke grond
broadcast on radio 1, bar du matin
*prose text "eigen woning"/"Home"
broadcast on radio 1, bar du matin
creation, director, interview, concept, montage
commissioned by hetpaleis
*documentary nic balthazar
"like any other human" and
"i was a normal person"
production and research
canvas and dechinezen
*creation "geluk en de zoektocht naar betekenis"
/ "Happiness and the search for meaning"
interview with vrt lang advisor ruud hendrickx
children on "happiness" and "happiness seekers"
bachelor piece drama/wordArt
featured on deredactie.be
2021
* Premiere numi yaldati
theater installation |
fien leysen & manu siebens
coproduction kvs & desingel
* podcast project (in creation)
with adriaan severins
production by slak
climate & transition in shipping
* publication poetry in het liegend konijn
* tour Numi yaldati
* tour wat (niet) weg is
* creation willard (continuation)
* ...
2019
*Mindblowers kvs & vub
video - what is time
"Wat (NIET) Weg is" / "That which is (not) gone"
* "wie we zijn" / "WHO WE ARE"
artist in residence at Hetnieuwstedelijk
creation new theater performance
* "willard"
CREATion theater performance
* Dramaturg KVS Brussel
theater performance "reverence"
2017
*creation Theater performance
"Wat (NIET) Weg is" / "That which is (not) Gone"
*Artistic employee
theater company BERLIN
production "remember the dragons"
*audio story "de geheugenatleet"/"the memory athlete", with rené van es
commissioned by "de nacht van kunst en kennis"/"The night of art and knowledge"
with support of de brakke grond en grenzeloos geluid
*broadcast of "de geheugenatleet"/"the memory athlete" on VPRO, radiodoc