Ramsey Nasr is an actor, poet/writer and director. In 1995 he made a great impression with the monologue De doorspeler, written and performed by himself, with which he graduated from the Studio Herman Teirlinck in Antwerp. This monologue earned him the Philip Morris Scholarship Award. In 2000 he made his debut as a poet with the collection 27 poems & Geen lied, which was nominated for both the C. Buddingh’ prize and the H.C. Pernath Prize. During the 2001 Boekenweek, he made his debut as a prose writer with the novella Kapitein Zeiksnor & De Twee Culturen. He also received the Mary Dresselhuys Prize and the Taalunie Toneelschrijfprijs for his second monologue Geen lied and was nominated for the Louis d'Or, the most important theater prize in the Netherlands. He gave the Vincent van Gogh lecture 2000, entitled The Myth and Orpheus: from shaman to scientist.