Kyoko Scholiers

Kyoko Scholiers (°1981) is a Belgian film and theatre actress, writer and director based in Antwerp. She graduated from theatre school (Studio Herman Teirlinck, Antwerp) in 2003 and ever since worked in Belgium, the Netherlands and France as an actress with theatre groups such as De Roovers, Het Toneelhuis, Comp.Marius, Theater Antigone, tg STAN and others. With fellow artists Louis van der Waal and Maarten Westra Hoekzema she founded the theatre collective 'unm'. Together they created outdoor location projects. With fellow actress Ruth Becquart, Kyoko created the art installation 'Letter'. This production won the Dutch Dioraphte prize. In 2015, Kyoko created 'Bastard', a comical-existential research into her alleged descent from Napoleon Bonaparte. In 2017 she came out with 'Misconnected' (Caravan Production): this installation toured to European theatre festivals and museums and today is shown permanently at Verbeke Foundation. For her music theatre piece 'Boy' in association with composer Joris Blanckaert Kyoko did research in Belgian and Dutch youth care during two years. She wrote the script and directed herself. 'Boy' premiered at Opera Ballet Flanders (Antwerp), was amazingly well received by the international press and toured during two years in Belgium and the Netherlands. In 2022 Kyoko started her film studies at KASKA (Antwerp) and at the same time started working on her first film script (produced by A Private View), for which shootings are planned in 2024.