In 2013, Femke Stallaert gra­du­a­ted from RITCS in Acting and, along with seve­r­al kind­red spi­rits, co-foun­ded De Koekelbergse Alliantie van Knutselaars (K.A.K.), which she depar­ted in late 2021 to pur­sue new adven­tu­res. Since January 2020, she has been one-third of the artis­tic lea­der­ship of visu­al the­a­ter hou­se DE MAAN.

Various encoun­ters with artists and hou­ses have alrea­dy led to numerous inte­res­ting col­la­bo­ra­ti­ons. With Linda Lugtenborg and Greet Jacobs, she cre­a­ted De Metamorphosen, based on Ovid’s sto­ries as inter­pre­ted by Benjamin Verdonck. They won Het Debuut at the ITS Festival in Amsterdam and per­for­med the pro­duc­ti­on in Flanders and the Netherlands. With the­a­ter col­lec­ti­ve RAF, she cre­a­ted and per­for­med in Meinhof/​Medea (in which the four lea­ders of the Red Army Faction per­form Medea as a pri­son Christmas play), which tour­ed under Eigen Kweek and play­ed at Theater Aan Zee, and Pantserkuiser Potemkin (whe­re a brass band must play for Stalin’s 70th birthday).

At DE MAAN, she per­for­med in Kleine Rode Eva (7+ and 16+) and Raya (9+). In 2018, she was asked to cre­a­te a pie­ce with Greet Jacobs, resul­ting in Planeet NIVANIR (7+) (whe­re two extra­ter­re­stri­als explain eve­ry­thing about a very pecu­liar spe­cies cal­l­ed ​“humans”). She col­la­bo­ra­ted with Palestinian wri­ter Rimah Jabr on Two Ladybugs (whe­re a Palestinian girl, a Belgian woman, and an Israeli sol­dier encoun­ter each other in a kind of ​“huis clos”), Raya at DE MAAN, and the mono­lo­gue Broken Shapes in col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with visu­al artist Dareen Abbas, Moussem, and The Theatre Centre in Toronto.

Femke col­la­bo­ra­ted with Renée Goethijn and Dries Gijsels on No use for Binoculars (searching for the hid­den in an age of transpa­ren­cy) and Totally (an attempt to make a per­for­man­ce whe­re nothing can go wrong) at Monty in Antwerp and De Werf in Bruges. She also per­for­med in Two things to do and two more things to do by Renée and Good day to be you and Realtime by Dries. For BRONKS, she cre­a­ted a musi­cal con­cert-thril­ler in 2021 about a Kate Bush cover band tit­led Cover Up. In April 2022, she cre­a­ted the pro­duc­ti­on ZOMBIE at BRONKS and Montagne Magique together with Cédric Coomans and nine young people.

Together with Annelore Crollet, she is con­ducting ongo­ing research into the work of German film direc­tor R.W. Fassbinder. This has alrea­dy resul­ted in two showings in 2019 at Het Bos in Antwerp and K.A.K. Femke is part of the cast of Misdaad en Straf (LAZARUS), which pre­mie­red in May 2022 and will be seen again in Mechelen and on tour in the autumn of 2022.