Director

Maria Kraakman

Maria Kraakman (1975) joined the ITA Ensemble in 2015.

In season 23|24 she will perform in the premiere of Prima Facie (director Eline Arbo) and the revivals of Penthesilea (director Eline Arbo), Lehman Trilogy (director Guy Cassiers), Judas (director Robert Icke) and The Doctor (director Robert Icke).

There will also be a revival of Cliënt E. Busken, which Kraakman directed, in season 23|24.

C.V.


Kraakman played before at ITA in Flight 49, Ibsen House, The Things that Pass, Roman Tragedies, The wood, Falling man, The year of cancer (nomination Theo d'Or), The homecoming, Small souls, The hidden force and Cries and whispers, Lehman Trilogy, Age of Rage, Judas and The Year of Cancer.

She graduated from the Arnhemse Toneelschool in 1998. Her career in theatre soon took off with e.g. performances by Art & Pro, where she acted in Ivanov and Diskoobigge, directed by Frans Strijards, Eline Vere at Het Nationale Toneel and the solo performance Anoniem by Nataliya Golofastova (Productiehuis Rotterdam) for which she won a Gouden Kniertje award in 2009. After Rainer Maria and Alma at De Warme Winkel, her time at Toneelgroep Oostpool began, with roles in e.g. Zomergasten (Summerfolk), Hamlet and Tramlijn Begeerte (A Streetcar Named Desire). In 2010, Kraakman won the Theo d'Or for her role in Orlando.

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As a film actress, she acted in e.g. Îles Flottantes by Nanouk Leopold and 06-05 by Theo van Gogh. For her muted role in Guernsey, also by Nanouk Leopold, she won a Gouden Kalf (Golden Calf) for Best Actress in 2005. She then went on to act in e.g. My queen Karo, Hunting & Zn. (for which she co-wrote the scenario), De bende van Oss and In Blue, for which she won a second Gouden Kalf in 2018. On television, she acted in series such as Medea, Ernstige delicten and Keyzer & De Boer Advocaten and played one of the leading roles in the series Koppels.

AWARDS
2018
| Gouden Kalf | In Blue
2016
| nomination Theo d'Or | Het jaar van de kreeft bij Toneelgroep Amsterdam
2015
| nomination Gouden kalf | Schneider vs. Bax
2010
| Theo d'Or | Orlando bij Toneelgroep Oostpool
2010
| nomination Gouden kalf | Hunting & Zn.
2010
| nomination Ensor | My queen Karo
2009
| Gouden Kniertje | Anoniem bij Productiehuis Rotterdam
2005
| Gouden Kalf | Guernsey

Maria Kraakman van het ITA Ensemble als Tessa Ensler in Prima Facie in Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA).

WORK OUTSIDE ITA


2023
De droom van de jeugd | Topkapi Series

2022
De Verschrikkelijke Jaren Tachtig | Topkapi Series

2021
Xenomelia | Dingelstad Producties

2020
Het A-woord | Fiction Valley

2019
Instinct | Halina Reijn
Zeven kleine criminelen | Pupkin Film

2018
Mooi geweest | Mari Sanders

2017
In Blue | Jaap van Heusden
Cobain | Nanouk Leopold

2016
Vlaznost | Nikola Ljuca
De jacht | Talpa
Tussen man en vrouw | Martijn Maria Smits

2015
De lange nasleep van een korte mededeling | Joppe van Huizen
Schneider vs. Bax | Alex van Warmerdam
Angels in America | Toneelgroep Oostpool

2014
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Toneelgroep Oostpool

2012
Tramlijn begeerte | Toneelgroep Oostpool
Boiling Frog | Toneelgroep Oostpool
Man in pak | Anna van der Heide

2011
Till the fat lady sings | Toneelgroep Oostpool

2010
Hamlet | Toneelgroep Oostpool
Ksztalt | Toneelgroep Oostpool
Er moet licht zijn | Toneelgroep Oostpool
Hunting & Zn. | Sander Burger

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2009
Orlando | Toneelgroep Oostpool
Zomergasten | Toneelgroep Oostpool
Alma | De Warme Winkel
My queen Karo | Dorothée Van Den Berghe

2008
Anoniem | Productiehuis Rotterdam
Eline Vere | Nationale Toneel
Rainer Maria | De Warme Winkel

2007
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi | Alaska
HannaHannah | Annemarie van de Mond
Olivier etc. | Sander Burger

2006
Koppels | TALPA

2005
Guernsey | Nanouk Leopold
06/05 | Theo van Gogh

2004
Zinloos | Arno Dierickx

2003
Gelogen gedachte | Toneelgroep Oostpool

2002
Eieredans | Nationale Toneel

2001
Îles Flottantes | Nanouk Leopold

Shows

Language NP Language no problem Judas ITA Ensemble Theater Judas
Close Judas ITA Ensemble / Robert Icke
The name Judas is familiar to many of us. The traitor. The scorned man. A man condemned century after century for his cunning cowardice and who to this day deserves no pardon - or - is that perhaps half a story?
Language NP Language no problem Prima Facie ITA Ensemble Theater Prima Facie
Close Prima Facie ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo
Prima Facie is a cutting monologue that caused a stir on West End and Broadway, and has been broadcast worldwide in cinemas by National Theatre Live.
Language NP Language no problem The Doctor
ITA Ensemble Theater The Doctor
Close The Doctor ITA Ensemble / Robert Icke
Robert Icke has a warm heart for the classics, which he adapts in his own personal and radical way. Once again, he is making a contemporary adaptation, this time of Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler.
Language NP Language no problem penthesilea ITA Ensemble Theater penthesilea
Close penthesilea ITA Ensemble / Eline Arbo
In this searing drama about a fatal love, a blistering passion churns unstoppably to the surface.
Language NP Language no problem Lehman Trilogy ITA Ensemble Theater Lehman Trilogy
Close Lehman Trilogy ITA Ensemble / Guy Cassiers
Slavery and industrialisation, war and new technological developments: no matter what is happening in America and even worldwide, the Lehmans always know how to make good money from it.