Mona De Weerdt

Mona De Weerdt is a theatre and dance scholar and dramaturg. Since 2021 she has been artistic director of TanzPlan Ost, alongside working as a freelance dramaturg with various artists and groups. Her research interests include class background/classism, ecology, exhaustion, identity and neurodiversity. In 2019 she received a Cultural Award from the City of Zurich in recognition of her dramaturgical and dance-scholarly work. From 2020 to 2024 she realized the project Choreographers at Work! together with filmmaker Michelle Ettlin – a documentary film series on creation processes in contemporary dance. In 2026 Mona is Dramaturge-in-Residence at Dansateliers Rotterdam.