Frie Leysen (19 February 1950 – 22 September 2020) was a Belgian festival director.

[4] Leysen was the first director of art centre deSingel in Antwerp, from 1980 to 1991.

Under her direction the festival became an internationally-acclaimed major event for Belgian and international performing artists.

[7] In 2007 she organised Meeting Points 5, a multidisciplinary festival taking place in nine different Arabic cities (Amman, Damascus, Beirut, Ramallah, Cairo, Alexandria, El Minia, Tunis, and Rabat), as well as in Brussels and Berlin.

After a period of illness, Leysen died on 22 September 2020 aged 70.