Meet the Team

Meet the team of WOW-EFFECT Theater – a group of international theater fans with different levels of experience. On this page we will introduce you to our team for the season 2024-2025.
We have vastly different backgrounds and experience levels when it comes to acting, writing, directing and production, but each member contributes something vital. We all work on our projects as a team and we all are way more than just team mates – we are dear friends to each other.
PS: Yes, you probably guessed it right, in these pictures we are dressed as our characters!


Maria Kinast
Maria KinastActress
Very organised, structured, empathic and friendly force of nature. She gets things done in her real life with job and kids, and uses theater to let go and enjoy the weird side of things! Loves to party, especially if said party allows her to go to bed on time. Still surprised when addressed as a real grown-up. Can be bribed with food to do nearly anything.
Candela Peño Gomez
Candela Peño GomezActress
Unpredictable, incredibly funny and loud, she arrived to the group with a great enthusiasm to let out her multiple personalities. Not a crazy woman, her grandma assures it.
Rob Cuperus
Rob CuperusActor
After completing an education in Chemistry, Rob was eager to get back into acting! A huge movie, music, fitness (and of course theater) nerd, his head is usually busier than the rest of him. Just make sure not to ask him for this favourite Iron Maiden album.
Asima Abidi
Asima AbidiActress
A tumor immunologist who daydreams constantly about being a shark instead. Can talk about The Office and Taylor Swift for hours on end but don’t ask her where her life is headed. Theater gives her the opportunity to be ‘someone else’ which is so much better than ‘be yourself’! Right? Right!!
Matilde Garcia
Matilde GarciaActress
Just a girl.
Remco Somers
Remco SomersActor
Wants to be a Disney villain. Can’t sing or dance. Scared of wasps. Likes cookies.
Johan Jans
Johan JansActor
Johan discovered his love for acting when his mild obsession with board games expanded into the territory of Dungeons & Dragons. He loves playing the monstrous, villainous and truly insane, but he’s a gentle soul in real life, he assures us.
Joachim Fusiecki
Joachim FusieckiActor
Divine hands, cursed mind and stoic soul. Can it work? We don’t know but it’s worth a try.
Stefania Mogliati
Stefania MogliatiActress
Dedicated to make delicious food she arrived to Nijmegen and by pure fortune found our group. She was never a theatre child, but never too late to be a theatre adult
Piyush Sharma
Piyush SharmaActor
Calculative, tolerant and perhaps empathetic. He loves Cricket, still dreams of playing at the highest level. He always needs music and makes sure that people around him listen to it too. He wants to do many things but he is good friends with laziness. A serene individual, he’s our perfect “Boy next door”.
Monishaa Mirchandani
Monishaa MirchandaniActor
Meet Monishaa, the self-proclaimed original Duracell battery who’s convinced she can cram more into a day than humanly possible. With a penchant for parties, art, traveling, swimming, cooking, and of course, theater, she’s always racing against the clock, believing she can outpace time itself, even if she’s mostly running behind schedule.
Philip Yesley
Philip YesleyWriter