Rikkert van Huisstede

okt 28, 2025 | Artist

Rikkert van Huisstede looks into the camera in front of a teal colores backdrop. Rikkert has light skin, curly brown hair, a beard and blue eyes. He is wearing a light blue sequin dress.

Rikkert van Huisstede (1993) is the initiator and artistic director of Boys Won’t Be Boys which he founded in 2018. He is a Dutch theatre maker, singer and poet, and studied music theatre at the Conservatory of Haarlem. With a powerful voice with a range of four octaves, he has been defying the masculine norms for years. He has an innovative view on themes such as gender, sexuality and parenthood.

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Rikkert van Huisstede. Photo by Ernst Coppejans.

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