Biography

a true stage animal

Alexander Brouwer-Casarola is a versatile performer with a keen sense of timing, physical transformation, and musicality. As an actor, singer, mover, and passionate puppeteer, he effortlessly shifts between vulnerable performances and expressive, comic roles.

He studied Musical Theatre at Codarts (2015) and interned with Toneelgroep De Appel, where his bold performance choices immediately stood out. After his role in War Horse, he developed a fascination for puppetry. His idiosyncratic puppet act made it to the finals of the TV show Popster, and was later presented in Paris and Los Angeles for the America’s Got Talent jury.

Since 2015, he has been affiliated with the Duda Paiva Company, where he has honed his puppetry skills. In his solo performance Hey, Who’s in the loo? (ages 2+), Alexander brought to life fifteen unique characters, each with their own voice and movement — a tour de force that has now reached over 25,000 children. In the musical piece Winterwater (Studio Figur), he combined acting, singing, drumming, and puppetry in a poignant coming-of-age story. The production was awarded De Keuze van de Wijkjury 2024.

He also appears in film and television, with roles in Flikken Maastricht, Ares, De Ludwigs, and in Amor Fati, a musical fairytale written by Flip Noorman and directed by Arlon Luijten.

As co-founder of Meander Immersief, Alexander creates immersive theatre experiences in which audiences actively participate in fictional scenarios that touch on urgent societal issues. In the production Rotterdam aan Zee, visitors were evacuated in response to a looming flood — a physically tangible metaphor for the climate crisis. Theaterkrant called it “a groundbreaking theatre experience where fiction and reality are constantly shifting.”