Sofie Kramer (1990) is an Amsterdam based theater maker, performer and writer. Deriving from personal experiences, she examines her inner world from a political and philosophical perspective to tell bigger stories about the influence of power structures on the individual. In this search, she strongly relies on - and rebels against - antique sources such as Greek mythology. The fighting body is a returning theme in her work: the body that tries to fight time, gravity, the gaze of the other. She shows these fights in physical, strongly visual and often multidisciplinary performances, musicality and the body always being the starting point of the process.
Lodewijk is the third performance of the Taboo Trilogy, a triptych of soloperformances in which she examines taboos around the existential themes of death, sexuality, and birth. It is the longer theater version of the short solo SCOLD that she made in 2023 for the Café Theaterfestival. She won the Jury Price; the jury praised her strong acting and called the performance "an inevitable emotional experience" and "an important piece that deserves a big audience."
She graduated in 2019 at the Directing department of the Institute of Performative Arts in Maastricht. Before, she studied Acting at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht and Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She worked as a director's assistent at Orkater, Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, NITE and Productiehuis Rotterdam.