Frie Leysen

Frie Leysen
Born	1950
Occupation	Festival director

Frie Leysen (born in Hasselt in 1950) is a Belgian festival director. She founded the art centre deSingel in Antwerp, and was a director of the organisation from 1980 to 1991. She founded the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels in 1992, and led the event until 2006. She curated the Theater der Welt in 2008–2010, was an artistic director at Berliner Festspiele in 2010-12, and was the theatre director of the Wiener Festwochen in 2013–14.

She was awarded the Flemish Community Award for general cultural contributions in 2003, an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels, and the Erasmus Prize in 2014.