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.

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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, ...)

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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. The installation premiered in February 2021 in KVS and deSingel (Belgium).

 

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.

2022

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* VOiceovers e-learning (Artesis plantijn)

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* Tour true Copy (BERLIN)

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* DOCUMENTAry: THE MAKING OF BERLIN
On the creation of the newest production of 

theater company BERLIN
PREMIERE 12/05/2022

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* CREATIon MEUROP
LOCATion theater piece BONHEIDEN

PREMIERE 09/2022

 

*TOm STRUYF's  FINDING WILLARD

premiere 11/2022 
  

2020

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* CREATIon THEATER INSTALLATIon
NUMI YALDATI | Fien leysen & manu siebens 

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* PODCAST KVS METAMORPHOSEs

about Metamorphoses by manuela infante 

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* PARty for poetry

reading of own work | poetry

(GENT, OOSTENDE, LEUVEN)

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* OPINIon piece | DE STANDAARD

Het gewicht van de wereld 

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* 'DE MENING' | 'The OPINIon' de standaard

5 opinion pieces

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* opinion piece de standaard

tribute to lydia chagoll

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* 'Sprekende Ezels' online editie

and summer in O / Party for poetry

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* HEt nieuwstedelijk plays "hoe dan ook"

online video-theater during covid19 creation "Concealer", actress in "influencer",
overall final editing and video 

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* 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

2016

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*assistant-curator korte golf

oorzaken festival, de brakke grond

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*audio story "eb"

broadcast on radio 1, bar du matin

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*prose text "eigen woning"/"Home"

broadcast on radio 1, bar du matin

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*documentary "stukschrijven"

creation, director, interview, concept, montage

commissioned by hetpaleis

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*documentary nic balthazar

"like any other human" and 

"i was a normal person"

production and research

canvas and dechinezen

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*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

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2021

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* Premiere numi yaldati 

theater installation |

fien leysen & manu siebens

coproduction kvs & desingel

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* podcast project (in creation)

with adriaan severins

production by slak

climate & transition in shipping

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* publication poetry in het liegend konijn

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* tour Numi yaldati

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* tour wat (niet) weg is

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* creation willard (continuation)

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* DOCUMENTAry: THE MAKING OF BERLIN
On the creation of the newest production of 

theater company BERLIN (in creation)

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* Tour true Copy (BERLIN)

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* VOiceovers e-learning (Artesis plantijn)

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* 'DE MENING' | 'The OPINIon' de standaard

4 opinion pieces