Hanna Timmers
Maker
Hanna Timmers has mastered the art of telling an authentic and powerful story with large groups of people within a short period of time. Hanna's projects often operate in public space and are research-oriented and participative. She also connects local (invisible) stories and history to the complex time in which we now live.
Timmers is currently working with Gerbrand Bos at Frascati Productions on her solo performance Daar buiten de ring.
Biography
Hanna Timmers graduated in 2010 as a theatre teacher from De Theaterschool (Academy of Theatre and Dance) in Amsterdam. Since then she has worked as a teacher and maker with MAAS Theater and Dance, Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Het Jeugdtheaterhuis. Since 2012, Hanna has been affiliated to Theater Na de Dam. First as a maker of the first youth projects and then as a member of the content programming team. Hanna’s work is always ‘in context’ and often in the public space. Her productions connect local (invisible) stories and history to the complex times in which we live now.
In recent years, Hanna has focused principally on making theatre within a social-artistic context. At Het Nationale Theater (The National Theatre) in The Hague, she has artistic responsibility for Urban Stories, for which in 2017 – together with makers Martijn Klink, Els van der Jagt and Khadija Massaoudi – she created a series of productions in houses of prayer under the title ‘Eerst zien dan geloven'. In the spring of 2018, together with Thabi Mooi, she made ‘Wij Zijn Nederland’ in The Hague – a series of productions for all groups in primary education.
At the end of 2017, Hanna carried out research for Frascati in the Lodewijk van Deysselbuurt neighbourhood in Amsterdam’s Nieuw-West district. Accompanied by Rochdale staffer Faisal, she criss-crossed the neighbourhood and created a short solo on the basis of her experiences, which she then presented during De (on)vertelde Stad (Stadslab #1, route a). Elaborating on this research, together with designer Luca van Slagmaat, in the 2018/2019 season she created four episodes of the theatrical radio show ‘Radio van Deyssel’, bringing together stories from the neighbourhood in unexpected meetings.
Press
"Daar buiten de ring nodigt ons uit om onze vooroordelen aan de kant te zetten, uit onze schulp te kruipen en een connectie te maken met de mensen die om ons heen leven. Achter het beeld van een problematische wijk kan een hoop schoonheid schuilgaan."
Theaterkrant over Daar buiten de ring
''Radio van Deyssel #10 toont ons dat de behoefte naar het gedeelde en troostende karakter van kunst misschien wel groter dan ooit is''
Theaterkrant over Radio van Deyssel #10
''Juist de gefnuikte poging om tóch nog verbintenis aan te gaan maakt deze audiowandeling zo ontroerend''
Theaterkrant over Radio van Deyssel #8
''En daar staat plots niet alleen ons buurmeisje, maar ook de troef van de voorstelling voor me''
In "Ik wil wel mee naar binnen", een column door Hanna Timmers in Theatermaker
''Volgens theatermaker Hanna Timmers zijn bewoners nieuwsgierig en enthousiast''
"Wachten op ontwikkelkader voor vernieuwing Slotermeer" in NUL20
Productions
