Maartje Remmers

Maartje Remmers (1978) graduated from the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2001. She is a co-founder of Acteursgroep Wunderbaum, an actors’ collective that has been creating performances for 23 years on pressing socio-political themes, both on location and in theaters, collaborating with people from inside and outside the theater world. The company is internationally rooted; their work is produced and presented in collaboration with many international festivals and is also strongly connected to Rotterdam. 

Wunderbaum has received multiple awards, including the Mary Dresselhuys Prize (2006), the Proscenium Award (2010), and the Total Theatre Award (Edinburgh, 2014). In Germany, they were awarded the Martin Linzer Theater Prize in 2022 for their innovative leadership of Theaterhaus Jena over four years, and the 3sat Prize (Germany, 2024). They have also been frequently selected for the Dutch Theater Festival. 

Maartje was also a regular actress with NTGent (under the direction of Johan Simons) for several years. 

On television, she has had guest roles in numerous series and held regular roles in, among others, the crime series Penoza and the hospital series Dag en Nacht. Additionally, Maartje has appeared in various films, starring in Stella’s War (Diederik van Rooijen), Maybe Sweden (Margien Rogaar/Wunderbaum), Stop Acting Now (Mijke de Jong/Wunderbaum), and Mascotte (Remy van Heugten). For her role in Stop Acting Now, she received a Golden Calf nomination for Best Actress. 

In the 2024/25 season, she will appear with Wunderbaum in the location-based performance De Bulk, set in the Rotterdam Harbor and touring various European port cities afterward. At Theater Oostpool, she will perform in The Almighty Sometimes. 

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