Ro, Rox, Roxy, Roxana Verwey.
HumanAlien, Black Queer Person with Afro-Surinamese and Indigenous roots. World citizen, Performer, Maker, Educator, Coach, Policy Maker, Traveller & Activist (Rotterdam,1988)

Ro is a self taught performance teacher, who now still teaches 2 decades later.
Roxy’s artistic journey started to develop in different places that nurtured their interests and talent. On the streets of Rotterdam, Church, HipHopHuis, SKVR, DOX and later on this became institutes like Codarts and AHK. These places all shaped Roxy’s artistic and educational expertise. Becoming the performer, teacher, programmer and policy maker that Roxana is today.

Next to teaching and creating Ro’s work journey consists of being an allround performer, host, stylist, model and public speaker.
Rox is a role model for young queer, black and brown kids in the arts. With Roxy’s platform QueerSaferSpaces Roxana host events that are focused on Safer Spaces for the BIPOC Queer Community.

Ro’s artistic goal as a person, maker, teacher and policy maker is to let everyone experience what theatre, dance, expression and other forms of art could contribute to true growth of the individual as for the collective.
“ART is everything that moves, makes you move and discovering the pleasure and discomfort to understand yourself and the other more”