Billy Vavken
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Culture is not a luxury – it is the bridge on which we meet.
Vita.
Billy Vavken is a producer, cultural manager and co-founder of BOW, the consultancy and production company he established together with his brother Patrick. Two worlds that seem unrelated at first glance – culture and medicine – merge into a compelling whole.
Billy’s professional journey has taken him from theatres and festivals to international collaborations, where he has developed new formats between theatre, music and performance. He sees culture as a resonance space for society and a laboratory for the future. With BOW he combines this perspective with Patrick’s systemic thinking – an alliance that strengthens cultural projects both artistically and structurally.
Whether in tour management, festival development or advising cultural organisations: Billy Vavken contributes intuition and hands-on experience – complementing Patrick’s analytical precision. Together they stand for an approach that understands culture as movement.
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Crew.
Shows.
The Last Days of Mankind?
A Knock on the Roof
Franz Kafka: MILENA!
Between the River and the Sea
Freud! My Black Devil
The Austrian State Prize for Literature
Rainer Maria Rilke: The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet
Fräulein Else
Landsfrau
As If It Were a Part of Me
WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT?
Miroslav Jugoslav – The Nemec behind Batic
Babyn Jar – Voices
Shards
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Grand Inquisitor
The Wizard of Oz
The Kreutzer Sonata
The Great Time
Olympia's Eyes
Neue Deutsche Welle
The Lady of the Camellias
The Little Ghost
Viennese Love-Death around 1900