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.