About

Aurélie Lannoy (1982) is a belgian actress based in London, Brussels and Ghent.

She began her theater training at the IAD in Louvain La Neuve and continued at the Kleine Academie (Lecoq) in Brussels. She also joined the Susan Batson Studio in New York for on-camera acting training.

For the last 20 years, she has been a member of the multi-award-winning theater company Ontroerend Goed and performed across the globe.

Major shows she was part of include Funeral, £¥€$, Fight Night, Sirens, A Game of You, Internal, The Smile Off Your Face.

Alongside her work with Ontroerend Goed, Aurélie collaborate for several shows with other groups, notably the Divins Animaux Company in Paris and the music/spectacle group Les Vedettes.

More recently, she started to work on a new show with Tim Etchells, leader of the world-renowned performance group Forced Entertainment.

On the silver screen, Aurélie has played lead roles in several short films by (among others) Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni, Xavier Seron, Charlotte Dupont, Christophe Granger and Alex Verhaest.

contact : contact@aurelielannoy.be

Works

How Goes the World - Tim Etchells

Four performers come and go in a confusion of roles, costumes, scene changes, and light effects. Butlers, servants, messengers, soldiers, doctors, lovers, murderers, dancers, drunks, scoundrels, liars, and innocents are all here, along with queens and kings in tattered robes, all of them wailing in the fake snow that falls somewhere between the bookcase, the coffee table, the dead tree and the ironing board. A storm outside. A war in the distance. The sound of applause.

« THOUGHTFUL, MELANCHOLIC AND BREATHTAKING » – Eberhard Spreng – Deutschland Funk Kultur

with : Aurélie Alessandroni, Neil Callaghan, Aurélie Lannoy, John Rowley

text : Tim Etchells

concept & direction : Tim Etchells

dramaturgy : Matthias Lilienthal

dramaturgical advice : Benoît Vanraes

music composition & sound design : Graeme Miller

light design : Dennis Diels

set design : Tim Etchells, Chris Vanneste

costume design : Jo De Visscher

production : NTGent

coproduction : Tandem Scène Nationale (Arras-Douai), Wiener Festwochen

 

Fight Night - Ontroerend Goed

…Without even a single political reference, Ontroerend Goed’s ‘Fight Night’ makes a precarious analysis of  the consensus politics our democratic system has fallen into. That’s impressive.
De Morgen – Evelyne Coussens ****

…‘Fight Night’ develops into a vital exploration (…) into why we cling to our democratic institutions despite their failures, and what the alternatives might look like; and how, in the end, we deal with dissent, in a big society or a small room where the majority have decided, but a large minority beg to disagree
The Scotsman – Joyce McMillan ****

 

 

Funeral - Ontroerend Goed

Funeral is a moving, almost transcendental experience that’s filled with ritual, humility and humanity.

British Theatre Guide *****

Belgian experimentalists Ontroerend Goed strike gold again with this deeply moving theatrical mourning ritual.

Time Out *****

Funeral won a Fringe First Award in Edinburgh in 2023.

 

director: Alexander Devriendt

cast: Karolien De Bleser, Charlotte De Bruyne, Josse De Pauw, Julia Ghysels, Aurélie Lannoy, Pien Louw, Luca Persan, David Roos, Angelo Tijssens, Chris Thys, Somalia Williamson, Prince K. Appiah, Sophie-Anna Veelenturf

music: Joris Blanckaert

costume design: Element (Katrien Baetsle en Eline Willemarck) & Charlotte Goethals

light design: Sarah Feyen

technicians creation: Sarah Feyen, Lucas Van de Voorde, Pepijn Mesure

technicians tour: Jeroen Wuyts, Nick Dekeyser, Tuur Decoene

set building: Sam Declercq

props: Angelo Tijssens

graphics: Nick Mattan

research / assistant: Remi Cosijn

production
Ontroerend Goed

coproduction
DE SINGEL INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTRE (BE), VIERNULVIER (BE), LOD Muziektheater (BE), le MAIF Social Club, Paris (FR), La Rose des Vents, Villeneuve d’Ascq (FR), Perpodium (BE)

Coupeur de Route - Christophe Granger

Nino, 19 ans, est un vagabond des autoroutes. Il n’attend que l’été et le soleil pour pouvoir partir, faire la route, dormir dehors. Un jour, au détour d’une aire de repos, il rencontre Sarah.

Lauréat du prix des bibliothécaires au Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers 2023

 

Réalisation & Scénario: Christophe Granger

Avec: Théo Augier, Aurélie Lannoy et Arcadi Radeff.

Production: Haïku Films

Producteur/-trice: Antoine Delahousse & Thomas Jaeger

Image: Christophe Chauvin

Montage: Anaïs Manuelli

Musique: Dougal Kemp

Son: Maxime Berland

Pays: France

Année: 2022

Avec le soutien d’Arte France, du CNC, de la Région Nouvelle Aquitaine (Aide à la production) et du département du Lot-et-Garonne.

Zoo - Les Divins Animaux

«Zoo» est un jeu aux allures de show télévisé qui soumet 3 candidats à des épreuves déshumanisantes : salve d’ordres, séance de tir, récitation. Mais les candidats décident de ne pas en rester là. Après les avoir vu avec empathie obéir, obtempérer et souffrir, on prend plaisir avec eux à les voir retourner le jeu contre lui-même, et, avec une insolence insurrectionnelle et créative, s’amuser comme des enfants avec la dignité, la peur de la mort et le langage.

conception et mise en scène : Florian Pautasso

créé avec : Stéphanie Aflalo, Roman Kané, Aurélie Lannoy

scénographie : Andrea Baglione

création musicale : Sophie Van Everdingen

création costumes : Florian Pautasso

création lumière : Philippe Ulysse

son : Marius Pruvot

assistanat accessoires et costumes : Julia Leandri

recherches préparatoires : Julie Chomat

construction : Clément Debras

administration et production : Fanny Paulhan

co-production : Le Studio-Théâtre de Vitry, Théâtre Ouvert, Le Centre Dramatique National d’Orléans
soutien : Département du Val-de-Marne, Région Ile de France

Ad Hominem - Alex Verhaest

Ad Hominem is an interactive philosophical choose-your-own-adventure film, based on Sofie Verhaest’s brilliant doctoral thesis Eutopia Unbound, in which the player is cast in the role of Change. The player is invited to pick an answer to questions proposed by four different characters representing four distinct utopic ideas. Through a maze of historical quotes on collectivism, individualism, progressive thinking and conservatism, the player is guided towards an event, organized in honor of Change’s arrival.

Awarded with a Special Mention at Ars Electronica, the Austrian festival for art, technology and society.

 

Written & directed: Alex Verhaest  

Produced: Melissa Dhondt  

In the role of: 

Progressive collectivist: Hélène Devos 

Progressive individualist: Aurélie Lannoy 

Conservative individualist: Marijke Pinoy  

Conservative collectivist: Anemone Valcke 

Director of photography: Korneel Moeyaert 

Gaffer: Korneel Moeyaert 

Production manager: Julie Piessens 

Production assistant: Zara Van Den Bergh 

Focus puller: Pieter-Jan Neirynck 

Costume design: Gudrun Wylleman 

Make-up artist: Dorien Van Poucke 

Sound engineer: Gedeon Depauw 

Set dresser: Evi Cremers 

Music: Théo Pogoza  

Sound design & mix: Théo Pogoza  

Scoring of theme song: Maxime Denuc 

Singer: Lieselot De Wilde 

Recording & theme song mix: Ångstrom records 

VFX by Skerm West 

VFX supervisor: Stijn Calis 

VFX artists: Florian D’heer, Oussama Mahieddine & Franceska-Victoria Indeherberge 

Production manager: Julie Piessens  

Production assistant: Zara Van Den Berg 

Head software development: Karyme Hisham 

Bèta development: Benoit Jollivet 

Ad Hominem was made with the support of: Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF); Kunsten en Erfgoed – Flemish Government; Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles; Stad Roeselare; Cultuurcentrum De Spil; Barakat Contemporary, Seoul; in Hinterland

£¥€$ - Ontroerend Goed

…£¥€$ (Lies) isn’t just a clever historical and psychological analysis of the high finance world, it’s also smart, fast and incredibly exciting theatre.
De Morgen – Evelyne Coussens *****

…Ontroerend Goed builds the stock market suspense in an almost inconspicuous way
De Standaard – Filip Tielens ****

£¥€$ won a Fringe First Award in Edinburgh in 2017.

 

director: Alexander Devriendt

script : Joeri Smet, Angelo Tijssens, Karolien De Bleser, Alexander Devriendt

cast : Joeri Smet, Angelo Tijssens, Karolien De Bleser, Samir Veen, Hannah Boer, Aurélie Lannoy, Joeri Heegstra, Britt Bakker, Charlotte De Bruyne, Bastiaan Vandendriessche, Robin Keyaert, Max Wind, Sjef van Schie, Aaron Gordon, Eliane Zwart, Tiffer Hutchings, Leonore Spee, Luca Bryssinck, Marieke Anthoni, Mitch Van Landeghem, Nora Ramakers

technical support: Babette Poncelet, Iben Stalpaert, Koen De Wilde, Thibaut Wohlfahrt, Sarah Feyen, Lucas Van de Voorde, Klaas Neyt

costumes: Astrid Peeters

music: Johannes Genard

design: Nick Mattan

scenography: vormen

dramaturgy: Koba Ryckewaert, Zach Hatch, Julie Behaegel (intern)

assistant producer/tourplanning: Charlotte Nyota Bischop, Karen Van Ginderachter

producer: David Bauwens

Ontroerend Goed in coproduction with Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Theatre Royal Plymouth and Richard Jordan Productions
Special thanks to Toneelacademie Maastricht
With the support of the Flemish Government, Province of East-Flanders & the City of Ghent.

Silent Screen - Aurélie Lannoy

A moment of silence is a period of silent contemplation, prayer, reflection, or meditation. Similar to flying a flag at half-mast, a moment of silence is often a gesture of respect, particularly in mourning for those who have died recently or as part of a tragic historical event. Most commonwealth countries call it a minutes silence or a one-minute silence as that is the shortest period of silence that they observe after a tragic event.

And what if we would be free to choose the reason for that one-minute silence. For whom or what do we want to stand still?

Do we need that common moment for our quiestest thoughts? How do we behave in that situation? All in the same way? What are we really thinking about in a silent group? About that image of a little boy coverd in blood in Aleppo? About the schedual of the tram that will bring us home? About the very strong perfume of the lady next to us?

Silent Screen invite us to join our precious thoughts. To share what deeply touches us or makes us angry. A moment all together to look at ourselves on a white screen.

 

Silent Screen has been created in 2016 by Aurelie Lannoy and performed at the Area 42 gallery Brussels and at the Minard in Gent during the celebration festivities of Ontroerend Goed’s 15th birthday.

Supported by the Area 42 Gallery in Brussels

Still Too Sad to Tell You - Anne-Cécile Vandalem

Ten screens invite you to an intimate experience where tears, as they are put on display, also beg to be collected.
An immersive installation made up of several portraits in order to question the anthropological and plastic dimensions of the topic at hand: the pleasure of tears and their representation.
Still Too Sad to Tell You is directly inspired by I Am Too Sad to Tell You by artist Bas Jan Ader.

Concept et réalisation: Anne-Cécile Vandalem – Das Fräulein (Kompanie)
Musique: Pierre Kissling
Scénographie:  Ruimtevaarders
Images: Federicco D’Ambrosio, Jérémy Van Der Haegen
Création et régie vidéo: Benoît Gillet

Avec: Selma Alaoui, Brigitte Dedry, Véronique Dumont, Epona Guillaume, Séléné Guillaume, Zoé Kovacs, Lili Kovacs, Ghila Kovacs, Charly Kovacs, Aurélie Lannoy, Vincent Lecuyer, Gaetan Lejeune, Jean-Benoit Ugeux, Nathalie Yalon, Mélanie Zucconi

Production Das Fräulein (Kompanie)

Flirt - Les Divins Animaux

4 comédiens proposent aux spectateurs de vivre une aventure intense avec eux, avant que chacun, anonyme, ne rentre chez soi. Joueurs et engagés, ils cherchent par tous les moyens à consommer cette relation charnelle et imaginaire, secrète et exposée, tantôt légère, tantôt tragique. Pour cela, ils sont prêts à flirter avec toutes les limites.

…Aurélie Lannoy, comédienne démesurée, fragile et cartoonesque, bouleverse le paysage beauté-canon, homogène et lisse de la troupe initiale. Dérangement crucial dans l’ordre du charme. Parce que dans Flirt, il s’agit bien de plaire…
Mouvement.net – Elie Salleron

conception et mise en scène :  Florian Pautasso
avec  : Stéphanie Aflalo, Flavien Bellec, Solal Forte, Aurélie Lannoy, Sophie Van Everdingen
création musicale : Sophie Van Everdingen
création lumière :  Philippe Ulysse
administration, production, diffusion  : Claire Nollez

Production – Les divins Animaux
Coproduction et résidence – Les Subsistances, 2015/2016, Mains d’œuvres – Saint-Ouen – Résidence d’artistes, Le Parc de la Villette
Avec le soutien de la Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles d’Ile de France – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
Avec le soutien de l’ADAMI et de la SPEDIDAM qui est une société de perception et de distribution qui gère les droits des artistes interprètes en matière d’enregistrement, de diffusion et de réutilisation des prestations enregistrées
Projet accompagné en production et diffusion par Maison Jaune

Lucha Libre - Ann Sirot & Raphaël Balboni

Jean and Aurélie, as many other couples, often trample across the swamps of love querels, where they encounter bad faith, unending argumentation, overreaction, stuborn silences, crying, shouting, etc.

Jean and Aurélie are also the scientists of their own fights. They sort them in different categories, analyse them, make graphics and put them away in archive boxes.

Prix du public au Short Screen 2015 – Belgique – Bruxelles

Prix “Lenzing“ au Festival of Nations – 2015 Autriche

 

Screenplay and directing: Ann Sirot & Raphaël Balboni

Produced by: Frakas Productions

With: Aurélie Lannoy and Jean Le Peltier

director of photography: Jorge Piquer Rodriguez

sound engineer: Bruno Schweisguth

costume designer: Frédérick Denis

choreographer: Denis Robert

editing: Raphaël Balboni

sound editing: Julien Mizac

mixing: Philippe Charbonnel

calibration: Michaël Cinquin (Charbon Studio)

Sirens - Ontroerend Goed

…The language is lacerating, the performances bruising in their upfront intensity – and the effect is utterly exhilarating.
The Times – Sam Marlowe *****

…This experimental and unconventional performance was unflinching, brave, wild and brilliant. The humour was woven tight into the truisms that Sirens confronted, presenting a hilarious, painful and significant piece of theatre that sees modern women asking what feminism means. The title could not be more apt; from the modern day emergency sirens, which are a call to arms, signalling distress but also a rush of help and support, to the Sirens of Ancient Greece who seduce sailors with beautiful voices to shipwreck them – the screams of Ontroerend Goed confront the difficulties of navigating the turbulent waters of modern feminism in hopes of shipwrecking misogyny and providing a lifeboat for feminists, men and women alike. A triumphant and important piece, sing on Sirens.
On the Beat – Polly Hember

Sirens won a Stage Award for Acting Excellence as best ensemble at the Edinburgh fringe festival in 2014.

 

Director: Alexander Devriendt

Dramaturgy: Joeri Smet, Mieke Versyp

KOKO - Nicola Testa & Martin Landmeters

Video Clip directed by Martin Landmeters & Nicola Testa for the track ‘KOKO’ by Nicola Testa.

KOKO won an ‘Octave de la Musique’ award for best clip of the year 2015.

 

directors: Martin Landmeters & Nicola Testa

director of photography: Frédéric Martin

cast: Aurélie Lannoy, Victor Dumont

 

Inacia - Charlotte Dupont

The organization of the daily life of a lonely maid is shaken by her guilty desires…Unless it is the weight of what is left unsaid by the family in the house where she works.

Fiction, 15’ – Format 16:9 / Hélicotronc, Belgium

With Aurélie Lannoy, François Pirot

Portobello film Festival 2014, London, UK // Festival of Nations 2014, Lenzing, Austria//
Midis du Court, Mons, Belgium //26th International Istanbul Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey

A Game of You - Ontroerend Goed

‘A Game of You’ shows that we reveal ourselves through our behaviour, both consciously and unconsciously, but it also shows that leaked information to be illegible, at least in any objective sense. In asking us both to judge and be judged, it is judgement itself that comes under the microscope and proves, precisely as the title implies, an exercise in subjective projection.- Matt Trueman

Creation: Alexander Devriendt, Joeri Smet, Sophie De Somere, Nicolaas Leten, Maria Dafneros, Charlotte De Bruyne, Aurélie Lannoy, Kristof Coenen & Eden Falk

Performers: Joeri Smet, Charlotte De Bruyne, Karolien De Bleser, Aurélie Lannoy, Angelo Tijssens, Mieke Versyp, Lisa Schamlé, Joeri, Heegstra, Samir Veena.o. / e.a.

Technical crew: Tom Daniels, Thibaut Wohlfahrt, Babette Poncelet

Ontroerend Goed in coproduction with BAC – Battersea Arts Centre & Richard Jordan Productions Ltd., with the support of The National Theatre Studio (London). In collaboration with Vooruit, KC België & Inkonst (Malmö).
With the support of the Flemish Government, Province of East-Flanders & the City of Ghent.

 

Internal - Ontroerend Goed

…What’s remarkable about this 25-minute experience is the extent to which it seems to make people both think and feel… So is it true that real relationships are becoming too difficult for us? Are we such a bunch of sad cases that we need to buy a theatre ticket to get a date? Or have we just forgotten, in our earnest quest for autonomy and self-sufficiency, how to make that first move towards something that notoriously brings pain and need as well as joy and fulfilment? Ontroerend Goed’s performance never pretends to answer these questions, but it certainly raises them, more powerful than any theatre experience I can remember.
The Scotsman – Joyce Mc Millan *****

Internal won a Fringe First Award and an Herald Angel Award at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2009.

Artistic team: Alexander Devriendt, Joeri Smet, Sophie De Somere, Aurélie Lannoy & Nicolaas Leten

Also with: Kristof Coenen, Maria Dafneros & Olivier Roels

Ontroerend Goed in cooperation with KC België, Vooruit & Inkonst (Malmö); in association with Richard Jordan Productions Ltd.
With the support of the Flemish Government & Province of East-Flanders.

Keys - Ontroerend Goed

Sophie’s fascination with scenography and immersive theatre resulted in a labyrinth, where visitors were chained to the wall, exchanged written messages with a performer behind glass and got seduced by a mysterious female lift attendant. A challenging experiment some visitors still remember to the day.

Concept: Sophie De Somere, Alexander Devriendt, Joeri Smet
Visual direction: Sophie De Somere
Actor’s direction: Alexander Devriendt
Actors: Kristof Coenen, Laura Mas Sauri, Lazara Rosell Albear, Aurélie Lannoy, Jules Debrock
Sound: Kapotski
Musical performance: ST!CKER

In coproduction with Limelight/BUDA and Beursschouwburg

The Smile Off Your Face - Ontroerend Goed

…As an essay in intimacy, human warmth and real emotional attention – and a reflection on the shocking lack of it, in many busy modern lives. ‘The Smile off Your Face’ is an unforgettable experience.
The Scotsman – Joyce Mc Millan ****

The Smile off Your Face won a Fringe First Award and a Total Theater Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007 and a Best Theater Award at the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2008.

 

Directors: Sophie De Somere & Joeri Smet

Actors: Alexander Devriendt, Aurélie Lannoy, Nicolaas Leten, Sophie De Somere, Kristof Coenen

Music: Sebastien Omerson

Ontroerend Goed in association with Richard Jordan Productions Ltd.
With the support of the City of Ghent & Province of East-Flanders.

NB: A new version of the performance has been made in 2022 in collaboration with KASK School of Arts, Ghent.