The 34-year-old from Utrecht particularly likes telling stories lying on the border between truth and untruth. Laughing or desperate faces are for him a sign of recognising one's own thought patterns and their traps. "What can contribute more to understanding than laughing together about our characteristics?" Direct contact with his audience is very important to Raymond.
Raymond's inspirations come straight out of his daily life. Since the part of the city of Lombok where he lives and works is well known for its multi-ethnicity in the whole of Holland, it is in particular stories from the "new Dutch" brought with them from Morocco, Iran, Turkey or Surinam which he passes on. "Cultural angles on daily experiences make the stories so new and exciting for us." 
Apart from his appearances as a storyteller, Raymond works as a director for a theatre group, as an actor (among others in international narrative theatre productions) and gives courses in storytelling in German and Dutch.