Olga Ponjee is a screenwriter and amateur dressmaker, mason, furniture builder and drag king.
She co-wrote the series Feuten (2012), the feature film De Ontsnapping (2014), and won the ANV Visser-Neerlandia Prize for her screenplay Voortjagers (2020), the award for the best unfilmed script in the Netherlands and Flanders. The film Stairway to Earth, which she co-wrote with Finn Szumlas, recently received a production grant from the Netherlands Film Fund.
Besides screenplays, she writes rhymes about headstrong children for Gottmer. Her stories are about the joy of resistance and about people who learn to find strength in precisely what makes them different.