About
Boy Jonkergouw is a craftsman with an impressive track record’ (from the advice of the commission National Dutch Fund for Performance Art 2020)
An artistic army against indifference.
Boy Jonkergouw has a 25-year long experience in performing, producing, directing and writing theatre. He produced and created both intimate theatre solos as more large-scale cultural festivals and worked both on commission as autonomously. His autonomous work mainly addresses the struggle of people that are poorly or wrongly understood by the media and society. Previously he made theatre about and with people that suffered from schizophrenia, bipolar disorders and autism. Since 2017, he focussed more and more on the stories of people with PTSD. In 2017 he made the impactful play Eyes Wide Open, in which Dutch veterans showed what the impact was of their trauma on their partners and beloved. In 2020 -22, he collaborated with peace organisation PAX and Het Zuidelijk Toneel on the production Dangerous Names, in which Srebrenica survivor Alma Mustafic shares the stage with Raymond Braat, a veteran of the battalion that was actually co-responsible for the death of her father. Considering recent international political developments, Boy felt the need to bring more substantive focus into his work. With human rights, social justice and the very existence of life on our planet under increasing threat, he wants to build an artistic army against indifference and injustice.