Kyoko Scholiers

Kyoko Scholiers (°1981) graduated from Studio Herman Teirlinck in 2003 and ever since worked as an actress and performance maker in Belgium, The Netherlands and France, with De Roovers, Het Toneelhuis, De Zweep, Comp.Marius, Theater Antigone, Tom Van Dyck, HETPALEIS, De Kempvader, Struiken, STAN, BRONKS and Zuidpool. She did camera work for the films Any Way the Wind Blows (Tom Barman) and Rosie (Patice Toye), she also had several guest roles in Flemish TV series such as Code 37, Vermist, Rang 1 and Aspe. With fellow artists Louis van der Waal and Maarten Westra Hoekzema she founds the collective 'unm' in 2007, but after 8 productive years and successful performances, its members decided to go their own way. During those years, Kyoko has collaborated with, a.o. Ruth Becquart for the perfomance Brief (2011), that would go on to win the Dutch Dioraphte prize. In 2015, Kyoko created Bastard, a comical-existential research into her alleged descent from Napoleon Bonaparte. The multimedial theatre performance was very well received by the press and toured intensively in Flanders and the Netherlands.
Kyoko's performance Misconnected (2016) consisted of an installation with fragments from phone conversations between people who are in one way or another disconnected from society.