Kim Willems

Frankfurt, Germany

Born 1985. Lives in Frankfurt and works as a theatre maker and writer for stage performances in Frankfurt, Gießen, Marburg, Dresden, Berlin & Basel. He studied applied theatre science in Gießen, first as a BA student & graduated with the master‘s degree in 2015 (student of Heiner Goebbels, Laurent Chetouane, Viviane de Myunch, Gerald Siegmund etc.) His theatre works take place in different cooperations: He is the co-founder of the theatre company ELIZA RESCUE TEAM in which he works as a director, performer and author. Pieces were shown at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, HAU Berlin, Theatre de la Cité Internationale Paris, Thalia Theater Hamburg. In 2013 their performance "Man of Confidence" was awarded with the most important theatre price for young directors in Germany (Körber Studio Junge Regie). In 2017 their performance "Report from the Interior" is selected for the "treibstoff festival" in Basel. Under the theatre label WILLEMS & KIDERLEN he develops theatre performances with children for adults such as "the nature of children" which was shown at studioNAXOS in Frankfurt 2016 & is selected for the "hessische Theatertage" in Darmstadt in 2017. Since 2015 he is also a member of the international theatre company ISO (associated to the UTE).

Kim Willems