Manah Depauw

°1979 lives and works in Brussels

After graduating from the Royal Conservatory for Dramatic Arts in Luik, Manah Depauw founded the company Buelens Paulina, together with Marijs Boulogne. Together they have created the performances Hotel O Control and the mystical-bizarre fable Endless Medication. Invited by the KunstenFestivalDesArts 2004, Depauw and Boulogne created Good Habits. Besides their theatre performances, they made radio shows between 2002 and 2004: a series of erotic-scatological stories, broadcasted by FM Brussels and Klara.

As an actress, Depauw played in Terre by Cie l'Anneau, in Baraque friture by KVS, in Killusion by Ontroerend Goed, in the film Lila by Tom Heene and in the video installations by Kris Verdonck and Alexis Destoop.

With performances like Aphromorphosis and Lichaamshof and with installations like Box en Bed, Manah has been exploring the boundaries between visual arts and theatre. During her residency in DE BANK/Victoria (2006) Manah created together with artist Bernard van Eeghem All along the watchtower and How do you like my landscape which were picked up by various important international festivals.

She also took part in the project Blind date from Transquinquennal and founds the magazine 'Stempel' with a collective from Gent: handelsreizigers. In 2007 she created together with theatre maker An Verstraete Club Caval for the Brussels project Canaletto.
The performance Johnson & Johnson was selected as one of the ten best performances by the Theaterfestival 2009.
Depauw's latest performance EdenCentral premiered and was created for Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2011 in Brussels. Since 2007 Depauw teaches occasionally at the RITS in Brussels and Kask in Ghent, and soon at the University of Antwerp.