Portrait of Yaël Koutouan

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Yaël Koutouan

Yaël Koutouan (she/her), born in 1995, is Black and identifies as queer. She studied theatre studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and writes as a freelance author for Theater der Zeit. She has worked as a theatre educator at the COMEDIA Theater in Cologne since February 2025 and she is responsible for curating the local programme of the africologneFESTIVAL.

As of: January 2026