Guy Sonnen,

actor singer theater maker


born in Maastricht, grew up there until the age of 14 (Henric van Veldeke gymnasium) Lived in Venray (Immaculata Conceptiones gymnasium and HBS) from the age of 14

Theater education:
Studio Herman Teirlinck in Antwerp. After graduating in 1972, he took mime lessons with Harvey Grossman at the Center d'Études Theatrices in Leuven.

Study classical singing
with Caroline Watkinson, Paula Lindbergh Salomon, Ernst Boreel, Valentin Soukhodolets, Ale van Dijk and Henk Smit, among others.

Study Dance and movement
Lea Daan, Antwerp and Jeane Newlove London (Laban movement technique), Atsushi Takenouchi and Adega Olmos (Butoh dance)

Independent actor/singer and theater maker in the Netherlands and abroad.
Founder and artistic director of music theater KIP, for which he wrote, directed and performed eight street operas.
Working as a theater maker, (film & TV) actor/singer and teacher Laban.
Producer of external recording Concertzender

ensembles

The Netherlands
Sater, Globe, Octopedians, Persona, Bread and Puppet, De Roeiers, Mickery, de Kern, Stg Maat, Het theaterkoor, De Nieuw Amsterdam, Studio Hinderik, De Nationale Reisopera Enschede, The Russo Kamerkoor, Ochtoi, Het Zuidelijk Toneel, Willem Breuker Collective

Outside The Netherlands

Belgium KNS Antwerp, Arena Gent, Arca Gent, Anna's Steen, 2000
Bulgaria National Theater “Ivan Vasov” SOFIA, NBU new Bulgarian University
Lithuania: Militinis theater Panavecis
Macedonia National Theater Bitola, MNT Skopje, Ohrid Festival,
Moldova Summer university Kishenau
Suriname Theater School Helen Kamperveen, Writing School Paramaribo
South Africa Sibikwa Players JOHANNESBURG

MOVIE S in Holland, and abroad:
The Flat BEN VERBONG ; Belle van Zuylen DIGNA SINKE ; Tears of Maria Machita PAUL RUVEN ; Fattigstugan TORE LUNDMARK (Sweden Lapland) ; The special gift for the Shogun HIRIMISHI NOMA (Holland, Spain, Japan) ; Drunken the Dutch water KARIM TRAIDIA ; Rembrandt (with Claus Maria Brandauer) CHARLES MATTON

Since 1975 collaboration with Feike Boschma which in 2003 and led to musical theater productions (Visual, puppets, literary and musical reflections on the work of poets such as Heine, Pushkin, Rilke and Lorca) as “Heine Hände”, the opera “Mozart and Salieri” by Rimsky Korsakov (Gergiev festival R'dam) and “Pistols Pushkin”
In 2010 and 2011 he worked at Het Zuidelijk Toneel and the Breuker Kollektief as a solo singer and actor at “Mahagonny Songspiel” and “Het lied van …”
“Cooking for the Dead” culinary music theater 2-Takt Fest. Utrecht '12
”DORO” Opera Fatu Neslo/Nahar Thalia theater Paramaribo '12
“Those who are going to die salute you” 48 hours Film Project Amsterdam '13
“Christmas special The DINO SHOW” Father Kils Man at work Rotterdam '13
“KATAKLOEMP, The 3 Basses” DaDa, Johnny van Doorn, Bukowsky. ASD '14
“RUSSIAN CHAMBER CHORUS” Soloist div. concerts. Including tour through Ukraine Odessa'14