Role: Elisabeth (character) – Original Wien, Scheveningen, Essen, Berlin 2008
Nationality: Dutch
Homepage:www.piadouwes.com
Petronella Irene Allegonda (PIA) Douwes is the biggest musical star of continental Europe. She started her career as swing in Cats in Amsterdam but her break-through role was Elisabeth in Vienna in 1992. Since then she played numerous shows including Fantine in Les Misérables, Sally Bowles in Cabaret or Evita and many more.
In 2004 she debuted on Broadway in Chicago, playing Velma Kelly, role she previously and later again played in London on West End. She originated the role of Diana Goodman in german speaking premiere of the acclaimed hit Next to normal, met her long-life stage partner and friend Uwe Kröger in Vienna again for the premiere of new musical Der Besuch der Alten dame.
She participated in many concerts, either solo ones or as guest. She also worked as judge in TV reality shows – Op zoek naar Evita (In search for Evita) (The Netherlands, 2007), Ich Tarzan, du Jane (Germany, 2008), Op zoek naar Joseph (In search for Joseph to musical Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat) and in 2009 she was a coach and judge in Op zoek naar Mary Poppins in the Netherlands.
Musical roles:
- 1986 – Little Shop of Horrors, Crystal in Vienna
- 1986 – 1987 Sammy Mario and Dancers, Dancer in Vienna
- 1987 – Cats, Swing, Grizabella, Jellylorum in Amsterdam
- 1988 – 1989 Cats, Grizabella, Jellylorum, Demeter in Vienna
- 1988 – Cats, Grizabella, Jellylorum at the tour through Russia
- 1990 – West Side Story, Maria at the tour through Belgium and the Netherlands
- 1991 – 1992 Les Misérables, Fantine in Amsterdam & Schevenigen
- 1992 – 1994 Elisabeth, Empress Elisabeth in Vienna
- 1994 Other People’s Money, Kate Sullivan in Prague
- 1994 West Side Story, Maria in Summer of Musical Amstetten
- 1994 – 1995 Grease, Rizzo in Vienna
- 1995 / 1996 Cabaret, Sally Bowles in Bad Hersfeld, Germany
- August 10, 1995 Cats, Grizabella and guest at the premiere in Vienna
- 1995 – 1996 and January 1997 Evita, Eva Péron at the tour through the Netherlands
- 1997 Rocky Horror Show, Janet in Bad Hersfeld, Germany
- 1997 – 1999 Dance! Dance! Dance!, Soloist in Vienna
- 1997 – 1998 Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre at the tour through the Netherlands
- November 1998 Savanah Bay, Young Woman in the Netherlands
- December 1999 The Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical Gala, Soloist at the tour through Germany
- 1999 Chicago, Velma Kelly in Utrecht
- 1999 – 2000 Elisabeth, Elisabeth in Schevenigen
- 2000 Sweeney Todd, Beggar Woman, Debut in the West End of London
- December 2000 Cole Porter’s Songbook, Soloist
- 2001 – 2002 Elisabeth, Empress Elisabeth in Essen
- 2002 Fosse, Soloist at the tour through the Netherlands
- 2003 – 2004 3 Musketiers, Milady de Winter in Rotterdam
- 2004 Chicago, Velma Kelly in London
- 2004 Chicago, Velma Kelly, Debut on Broadway
- 2004 – 2005 Passion, Clara at the tour through the Netherlands
- 2005 3 Musketiere, Milady de Winter in Berlin
- 2006 Cabaret in Amsterdam
- 2006 Elisabeth, Empress Elisabeth in Stuttgart
- November 2006 – March 4, 2007 3 Musketiere, Milady de Winter in Stuttgart
- April – June 2007 Best of Musical 2007
- July 2007 Cats, Grizabella
- December 5, 2007, “Chicago: 10th Anniversary Gala” as Velma Kelly.
- 2008 Die drei Musketiere Milady de Winter in Stuttgart
- 2008 Elisabeth das Musical, Elisabeth in Berlin
- 2008-2009 Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard
- 2009 Chicago West End as Velma Kelly
- 2010 We will rock you, The Netherlands as Killer Queen
- 2011 – 2013 Rebecca, Stuttgart, Germany as Mrs. Danvers
- 2013 next to normal – fast normal German Premiere as Diana Goodman
- 2013 Claire Zachanassian in Der Besuch der Alten dame (Thun, Switzerland)
- 2014 Claire Zachanassian in Der Besuch der Alten dame (Vienna, Austria)
- 2014 Billy Elliot – Mrs. Wilkinson
- 2016 Diana Goodman next to normal – fast normal (Fürth-Germany, Vienna-Austria)
- 2016 Mutter in Wenn Rosenblätter fallen