Yoeri Lewijze

Yoeri Lewijze had his first stage-appearance at the age of twelve. By his eighteenth birthday he attended acting classes at the Brussels Conservatory, after which he started work as an assistant-director and stage-manager on plays, musicals, and large-scale arena-productions in Belgium and the Netherlands. He appeared as an actor in children's musicals, and on television shows such as "Thuis", "Zone Stad", "Flikken", "Megamindy" and many more. He was a recurring main character on a celebrity show called "De Bende van Jim". At the 'Fakkeltheater' he acted in educational plays, some of which went on to play several hundred performances. For more than one of these performances he composed the musical score. From 2006 until 2012 he was an actor at the bilingual 'Ensemble Leporello', touring from Groningen in the Netherlands to Monaco in France, playing "Britannis", "Koffie/Temesta" and "Macbethbranding". This last play ran for a series of 21 performances at the Avignon Festival. He directed two children's musicals and was an acting-coach on multiple other productions. He gave workshops for the Ensemble Leporello and was a drama teacher at the Zaventem Municipal Academy and the cultural centre of the city of Sint Niklaas. In the summer of 2011 he directed a large scale parade in the city of Antwerp, based on a concept album of Axl Peleman, a renowned Flemish pop-musician. It ran in the streets of the city, and was played by over 300 participants and for an audience of thousands. In the season of 2012-2013 he directed "A view from the bridge" by Arthur Miller for the "Theater aan de Stroom", and a new educational performance called "2019", written and staged to raise awareness for environmental issues by the 'Educatief Theater Antwerpen'. He appeared in television shows "Familie" and "Rox". In 2013-2014, he directed "Alle 5" for the same company , a play about youngsters in an underprivileged environment, which premiered in attendance of Her Majesty Queen Mathilde. During the same season he played in "Games in the backyard" by Edna Mazya and directed Debbie Issitt's "The Woman who cooked her husband" at the 'Theater aan de Stroom'. In march of 2015 he translated and directed "King Lear", for this same company.