ABOUT LYNX
LYNX was founded in 2015 and initially focused on producing theatre. Since 2020, the foundation has been operating as LYNX Film with Julia van de Graaff as producer and chairman of the board.
The Second World was the first performance of LYNX about informers of the Secret Services and opposition members behind the Iron Curtain; it was based on Julia’s interviews with her Polish-Russian family. The Second World blended musical theatre with film projections and animation. The play toured the Netherlands and Belgium and was shown in February 2018 at the Nowe Epiphanie Festival in Warsaw, Poland.
In 2019 Apocalypse How written by Simon Weeda and directed by Ivar van Urk, had its premiere. This black comedy by Simon Weeda about ‘doomsday preppers’, conspiracy theories, money-minded people and great concern about the planet, toured the smaller theatres.
In 2020 Julia decided to take a new step with LYNX from theatre to film.
ABOUT JULIA
Julia started her career at the National Theatre and played a wide variety of parts with several theatre companies such as Theaterhuis Alba, Mighty Society and Bonte Hond. After her graduation, Julia worked with Golden Palace, which greatly influenced her further development as an actress and initiator of theatre performances. Some of her performances were in plays such as Feest!, Snowbirds, Contact, Remboe Villageand Restaurant Amore.
In 2007 she initiated with Branoul Theatre her first play, Deathkit, for which she translated and adapted the novel by Susan Sontag. Together with Theaterproductiehuis Zeelandia she performed in Zeeuwse Vrouwen 1 and 2 by Kees Slager, En/Of by Judith Herzberg directed by Ilmer Roozendaal and King, sweet king (2012) by Paul Pourveur, which was directed by Paul Knieriem. King, sweet king was an initiative inspired by Julia and was a play about the family-owned company and confectioners sugar empire ‘Van Melle’ and based on interviews by Julia with her family from Zeeuws-Vlaanderen (Zeeland Flanders). In 2016 and 2017 she played with Blau Hynder in Cleo & Lex by Simon Weeda, directed by Dick Hauser.
For television Julia played several guest roles, appearing in Boks, Keizer & de Boer, Spanga’s, Zestien Miljoen Rechters, Snuf de Hond and Flikken Maastricht. She also had a regular role as Nadja in the Frisian series about a law firm Dankert & Dankertby Steven de Jong.
She has acted in a number of short films such as Spin of Youth by Joël Duinkerke, Sledgehammer by Kuba Szutkowski and Edgar Kapp (for which she received the prize of Best Actress during the 48h Film Project Rotterdam), Lion. Panther. She-Wolf. by Véras Fawaz and Black by Tommie Geraedts.
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