Laetitia Dosch

Laetitia Dosch is a multidisciplinary Franco-Swiss artist. She works as a performer with international choreographers (Maria La Ribot, Marco Berrettini) and more traditional theatre directors (Katie Mitchell, Jean-Yves Ruf), notably performing in The Taming of the Shrew and as Isabella in Measure for Measure by Shakespeare. She also creates solo pieces, performing at Le Phénix and Théâtre du Rond-Point, followed by Hate (2019), a duet with a horse, presented all over Europe.

In cinema, she acts in both commercial and arthouse films, earning her several César nominations and the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

She spent four years working on her film The Dog’s Trial, an official selection at Cannes, which won the Best Dog Actor award and was sold in 52 countries.
With Lisaboa Houbrechts and the Mother Courage troupe, she returns to the theatre.
The film The House of Women by Mélisa Godet will be released in November 2025.

Joeri Happel

Joeri Happel (born 1991) is a Dutch theatre maker and actor. He graduated as an actor from KASK in 2021 and is a member of the collectives Camping Sunset and Zuidpark. Joeri previously performed at Compagnie de Koe and at Toneelhuis. In 2022, he will perform in the play De Koning eet...! at Het Zuidelijk Toneel. Joeri is one of the actors of the Werktoneel (Scènes, Giants  and Solipsists). He adores experimentation and co-creation. At Victoria Deluxe he is currently working with the group Lof der zotheid on a long-term project about psychological vulnerability and performance. Performances through the collective Camping Sunset are created with the audience, without a director where spectators watch the piece emerge and evolve over time. The interdisciplinary collective Zuidpark got a lot of attention by launching the concept Quarantaine TV  at the beginning of the lockdown in 2020. In 2021 the Werktoneel presented Scenes, inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s TV series. Their distinctive acting style was hailed as ‘actor’s dare devilry’. In 2023 participated in Olympique Dramatique’ Vijand van het Volk as well as performing in the new production of Het Werktoneel, Gruis/Aan de twijfel, directed by Jesse Vandamme.

Oumar Dicko

Oumar Dicko (Ghent, 1997) is a Belgian-Malian designer, performer and poet. He graduated in 2020 as a master in Fine Arts Fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent and currently works in Belgium, presenting his work across Europe and West-Africa. He participated in various fashion weeks in, among others, Paris, Abidjan and Dakar. Through his background as dancer and experiences in different fields he fluently navigates between various frameworks. He worked as a performer and costume designer for the company BLOET of Jan Decorte and Sigrid Vinks. He has already worked with Lisaboa Houbrechts as costume designer for Grandpa Puss and Yerma.

Fabiana Piccioli

Fabiana Piccioli graduated in Philosophy at University La Sapienza in Rome. After a short European career as a dancer, Fabiana Piccioli learned production management while working at Romaueropa Festival. In 2005 she joined Akram Khan Company as Technical Director and during this long collaboration she grew as a Lighting Designer. Being a freelance lighting and set designer since 2014, she has created work for Royal Opera House, Royal Danish Opera, Opera de Paris, Teatro La Scala, Scottish Opera, Opera National du Rhin, Opera de Lille, National Irish Opera, Ballet de Lyon, Goteborg Ballet, Finnish National Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders, ENB, Schaubühne Berlin, Stuttgart Ballet, Royal Court, Theatre de la Ville, New York City Ballet, Sadlers Wells and Les Ballets de Montecarlo, amongst others. She has collaborated with choreographers such as Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet, Johan Inger, Kim Brandstrup, and Jeroen Verbruggen, and theatre directors including Romeo Castellucci, Guy Cassiers, and Katie Mitchell. And with Lisaboa Houbrechts for Grandpa Puss and Medea. She has won three Knight of Illumination Awards for dance and for opera.

Alain Franco

Alain Franco, born in Antwerp, studied piano and music theory, earning a post-master’s degree in 20th-century musicology from the Ircam-Ehess Institute in Paris. His interest in contemporary music, both as a pianist and conductor, led to collaborations with significant ensembles and musicians throughout Europe. He has steadily developed a genuine and specific reflection on representation and performance, particularly focusing on ‘musical dramaturgy’. This has resulted in artistic collaborations with choreographers, performers, and theater directors such as Meg Stuart, Romeo Castellucci, Jan Lauwers, Anne-Teresa de Keersmaeker, Isabelle Schad, Karim Bel Kacem, Daniel Linehan, Thomas Vantuycom, Maud Blandel, Pierre Droulers, Deufert & Plischke, Benjamin Vandewalle, Elisabeth Borgermans, Etienne Guilloteau, Mirte Bogaert, Igor Shyshko, Michael De Cock, and Silvia Costa. Recent projects include Forêt (Rosas / Anne-Teresa de Keersmaeker / Louvre Paris), L’Alquimista (Michael De Cock / TNC), The Timeless Moment (Silvia Costa / Staatsoper Berlin), The Goldberg Variations (Rosas / Anne-Teresa de Keersmaeker), Nouveau Monde (Nicolas Klotz / Elisabeth Perceval), Y (Ruhrtriennale / Rosas), and In This Time (Tale Dolven / Rimi Art Center).

Pietro Quadrino

Pietro Quadrino is a freelance actor, writer and creator based in Brussels. After studying political science at La Sapienza University in Rome, he began his theater career in Paris, where he specialized in Commedia dell’Arte. Throughout his career, he has worked with many internationally renowned directors, including Ariane Mnouchkine, Angelica Liddell, Jan Fabre, Peter Brook, and Alex Rigola. His passion for writing has led him to various projects in the worlds of cinema and poetry.

Aydın İşleyen

Aydın İşleyen was born in the Konak district of Izmir, Turkey, as the youngest child of a Kurdish family. Inspired by his father from a young age, Aydın decided to become a musician. Due to political reasons, he was expelled from school, which only deepened his love for music. At 19, he found it too difficult to practice Kurdish art in Turkey, so in 2014, he moved to Northern Syria. A year later, he returned to Turkey, continuing his artistic life under significant restrictions. He was arrested by the Turkish police and sentenced to one year in prison. After his release, he moved to Athens, where he continued his artistic practice. It was during this time that he met Lisaboa Houbrechts and shared his life story with her. Through his art, he is now able to collaborate with her. Currently, he lives and works on the Greek island of Rhodes.

Koen De Sutter

Koen De Sutter is a Belgian actor and director. He graduated from Studio Herman Teirlinck in Antwerp in 1990. Since the 1990s, he has performed with almost every theater and theater company in Flanders. In 1991, he became the director of Theater Zuidpool, creating numerous productions, some of which toured in Belgium, the Netherlands, and France (notably Tambour battant by Arne Sierens at Théâtre de la Bastille). Since 2005, he has been affiliated with the three major Flemish city theaters (NTGent, Toneelhuis, and KVS) and continues his career independently. He performs both classical texts (Shakespeare, Racine, Büchner, Goethe, Ibsen, Strindberg, Beckett, etc.) and contemporary works (Martin McDonagh, Tom Lanoye, etc.). As an actor, he appears in films (Thomas Vinterberg, Tim Mielants, etc.), series (Cordon, De Twaalf), and theater productions for Dimiter Gottchef (Tartuffe), Guy Cassiers (La petite fille de monsieur Linh by Philippe Claudel), Carme Portaceli (Bovary), Milo Rau (La dernière génération, Pasolini), and many others. In 2025, he will perform in Mary Stuart by Schiller, directed by Chloé Dabert at Comédie de Reims.

Lisi Estaras

Lisi Estaras (1971, Córdoba, Argentina) chose to fully commit to dance after a professional dance education combined with a study of social work. Thanks to a scholarship, she studied at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem. Shortly afterward, she joined the Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv. After five years in Israel, Lisi moved to Europe and began her career with les ballets C de la B in 1997. Over the years, she started creating her own independent work, including performances such as Bartime with Einat Tuchman, Cocina Erotica, No Wonder with Constanza Macras, Leche (Passerelle, Kortrijk), and A distancia (Teatro Real, Córdoba). Lisi also creates choreographies for theater productions and works as a coach for other artists and companies. In 2016, she created MonkeyMind with Platform K, alongside three dancers with Down syndrome. This performance became a defining moment for her later choreographic work. For her 50th birthday, Lisi created the solo #THISISBEAUTY. In 2023, she performed in R.I.S.A., a production by KVS, directed by Jr.cE.sA.r. In 2024, she will create What we can do together, a co-production between Monkey Mind Company and Unmuted Dance Company, featuring dancers with mixed abilities from Europe and Africa.