Babette Kalker (Amsterdam, 1995) is a theatre scholar and dramaturg. During her studies (BA in Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam and MA in Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy at Utrecht University), she has been working as a dramaturg, creative producer and programme maker. As a theatre scholar, she specialised in the combination of theatre and ecology. She loves theatre and performance for its potential to release multifaceted and contradictory sensations, emotions and thoughts, to make complex issues tangible in an embodied way.