Maud Vanhauwaert

Maud Vanhauwaert is a writer and a theater producer. She holds a master degree in Linguistics and Litterature from the University of Anvers as well as a master degree in language science from Anvers’ Music Academy, where she is now a teacher. For her debut as a poetess, she won the Vrouw Debuut price thanks to her work entitled “We are parallel” (2014). She also won the Hughes C. Pernath Price as well as the Public’s Choice Award in the Herman De Corninck Competition. She’s trying to find new theatrical forms, in order to make theater more playful and easier for everyone to understand. She appeared both on radio and TV, in Belgium and in foreign countries. She was designated citizen of honor in the city of Veurne. In 2018-2019, she is appointed poetess of the city of Anvers.

Maud Verhauwaert has always been looking for something. She auditioned for 5 different drama schools but didn’t get into any of them. She has no child and lives in an unhealthy way. She has difficulties to give her life a frame and is quite stress responsive. She is dull-witted, quite jealous, conceited, and is not politically committed nor socially committed. One day, she was invited to a book signing in a book fair. She sat on a white stool at a white counter next to Herman Brusselmans. Suddently, she had her periods. The entire chair was covered with her blood. She still fears that on day Brusselmans incorporate this embarrassing incident into one of his book. She entered the fair as a writer and left it as a women running away.

Maud Vanhauwaert is the daughter of  Pol Vanhauwaert and Daniëlle De Vydt. She has a twin sister, Julie Vanhauwaert. For years, she has been living with this sister who doesn’t look like her. She lives with De Kleine Charlemagne, an alley cat which cannot be approached easily. She often tries to collaborate with artists from other disciplines in order to get out of her comfort zone. She hasn’t got a lot a friends but feel supported by a few people who really matter for her. She thinks a lot about life and death and is afraid to lose the people she loves. Sometimes she’d like to be a xylophone player so that she could hit wood every day.