KATY STREEK
Theatre maker & programmer
Biografie
Katy Streek is a freelance theatre maker and programmer. She is a graduate of the University of the Arts in Utrecht (2006) and has a Master Applied Theatre (2009) from the University of Cape Town. She’s co-founder of Sites of Memory Foundation and from 2013 till 2020 worked as a programmer for Afrovibes Festival in Amsterdam. In her work, she focuses on (international) collaborations, artistic dialogue and themes of colonisation, slavery and migration. She directed the site-specific productions Future for the Past (2020), Emerging Memory (2019), Changing Portraits (2018), Sites of Memory East (2017) and Sites of Memory (2016). Her other theatre work includes This is me - Dis na mi (2012), a site-specific production at Fort New Amsterdam in Paramaribo, De Tijdschepper (2010) in Amsterdam and No-Man’s Land (2008), an international exchange between South Africa and The Netherlands www.katystreek.com