Johan Deeder graduated in 2010 as a Performing Artist from Theater Training Selma Susanna (THOPSS) in Amsterdam. During his education, Johan played a leading role in Thamar de Jong's graduation performance in his first year. In his second year he was asked as the stage assistant and dancer of Sanne Wallis de Vries in her fifth theater program "BEST", directed by Selma Susanna, with the premiere in a sold-out Koninglijk Theater Carre and a tour through the Dutch Theaters up to his third year of study. From this point on, Johan has further immersed himself in his dance background and how to use it in the cabaret profession. For this and through, he ended up in musicals such as " Plilate's Dream (an adaptation of Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by S. Susanna), and Ayke van Os' graduation musical " Up n' Down" (an adaptation of the musical Pal Joey, directed by S. Susanna). Susanna) He also played in the theater graduation performance of Arno van Koolwijk "Hamlet nu", directed by Frederik de Groot. Within THOPSS he has developed as a cabaret artist with a flexible personality, and a talent for (dis)rest and emotion within dance, play and music theatre. Before Johan started THOPSS, he took jazz ballet, latin-american and ballroom dance lessons, taught Argentine tango in Portugal, played the clarinet for 5 years, took acting lessons at youth theater association Sikel Theater with a subsequent 2 years tour through the Netherlands and Belgium with the performance "Le Petit Prince" in which he played the lamplighter and got the leading role of Tyrone Jackson in the musical "Fame", by Stichting Theaterplan Eindhoven. Johan now works as a freelance cabaret artist and his last assignments included events agency TATARATAA, where he presented a "vicious gay act" for a large audience and he worked with director Rob Verhoeven on his solo dance performance "LAPDANCE". He also works for the European League of Institutes of the Arts, a non-profit organization that supports art colleges in Europe, to which THOPSS is also affiliated.