(The Netherlands, 1962) is an actor, singer, composer and translator. In his successful stage career he has played the most diverse roles in the the widest variety of productions. A small selection: he was the Controller in Miss Saigon and Zoser in Aida. Elwood Blues in The Blues Brothers and Tiger Brown in The Threepenny Opera. He has played Astor Piazzolla and Judas, Pantaar and Hipockets Duncan. On TV he's had large and small roles in various Dutch-language series. His first album from 2010 featured translations of Tom Waits songs, followed by a 2015 album that set Leo Vroman's poetry to music. In 2023, together with director Theu Boermans, he is creating an adaptation and translation for the show Mozart's Zauberflöte - Next Generation.

(France, 1982) is a photographer and visual artist. Her photo documentary series focus on places with history. She works together with artists and writers such as Remco Campert and Elly de Waard. She is also a founder of the catering collective Ogentroost (which works with edible flowers) and a creative instructor at the Free School. For her book Het lichte oog huilt kleuren (The Light Eye Weeps in Colour, 2017), she photographed fragments of drawings, paintings, etchings, paint spatters and notable details in the Bergen atelier of the painter and poet Lucebert. She digitally combined these with her photos of the nearby landscape, and asked Remco Campert to choose fragments of Lucebert's poetry as titles for the collages. Currently she is working on a photo series in Neerijnen and editing photos from her grandmother's family archive.

(1981) plays trumpet, composes and produces various styles of music. As a trumpet player, he plays in bands, with DJs and as a solo artist. He has played on countless stages at home and abroad, such as at Lowlands, Concertgebouw, Extrema Outdoor, Paradiso, Oerol and Mawazine Festival (Morocco). He composes on commission for film, television and theatre, as well as autonomously for ensembles and orchestras. He has collaborated with Sizzer Amsterdam, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Born Digital and Theatergroep Gehring and Ketelaars, among others.

is a pianist who has diversity at his fingertips, with a particular affinity for melodic figures. He started with classical piano lessons from an early age, and received improvisation lessons from Misha Mengelberg. From the nineties on he forms or participates in several ensembles that perform his compositions, linked to contemporary music-influences and improvisations. He collaborated with theatre ensemble De Appel, with Willem Breuker and Eric Vloeimans in The Dolphy 2000 Project, and worked on the theatre plays Victoria and Poëzie is mijn adem (Poetry is My Breath) by Felix Strategier.

(Morocco, 1975) is an award-winning writer, poet, playwright and curator. His 1996 debut, Bruiloft aan zee (Wedding By the Sea), was an immediate success. His second novel, De langverwachte (The Long-awaited) won him the prestigious 2003 Libris Literature Award. Benali's subjects vary, but sports and the migrant who never really feels at home are recurring themes. He has written novels about his great passion of running, about his travels, and about migrants' cultural identity (Bad Boy). His work has been published internationally. Recent books include the novel Paradijsvogel boven Hoge Woerd (Bird of Paradise over Hoge Woerd, 2022) and Het andere verhaal (The Other Story, 2022), an essay about his research into 75 years of modern Moroccan art.

(1990) writes, narrates and produces audio-stories about (colonial) history, identity and the culture of remembrance. She has been published in Dutch daily newspapers and the Indonesian monthly Moesson. Together with the Indonesian writer and visual artist Lala Bohang, she created The Journey of Belonging (2020), a quest for the influence of history on their lives and those of the women in their Indonesian families. In 2021, she appeared as one of the experts in the TV program Het Museum van Nederland (The Museum of the Netherlands). She is also head instructor and coordinator of the educational project Colonial Traces in My Neighbourhood, and is  currently working on her debut novel, Gado Gado, inspired by her own search for identity and belonging (expected in 2025). Early 2025 she will publish, together with Feba Sukmana, a reissue of the letters by Kartini.

(The Netherlands, 1946) grew up in a family with a past in the Dutch East Indies. He draws on these experiences in several of his works such as My Father's War (1995), Repatriated (2002) and in Naar zachtheid en een warm omhelzen (2023). Van Dis became well known via his literary television programme Here is... Adriaan van Dis (1983-1992). In addition to novels he has written novellas, travelogues, essays and plays. He presented TV documentary series and his podcast Van Dis Ongefilterd. He has received the Constantijn Huygens Award for his entire body of work. Recent publications are the collection Vijf vrolijke verhalen (2021), the novel KliFi, woede in de republiek Nederland (2022) and the essay De kolonie mept terug: over witte arrogantie en voortschrijdend inzicht: een denkoefening en leesreis (2024). During the Writers Unlimited Festival 2026, Van Dis will be the main interview guest on Saturday afternoon, 24 January, following the publication of his new book Alles voor de reis (Everything for the Journey), and on Sunday morning, 25 January, he and interviewer Simon Dikker Hupkes will record a new episode of his podcast series Van Dis Ongefilterd (Van Dis Unfiltered) live with an audience.

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