 When the Stenborg theater was closed in 1799, he was engaged in the travelling theater of his wife's brother-in-law Johan Peter Lewenhagen as well as in the "Djurgårdsteatern".Finally, he formed his own travelling theater company, where he toured by the privilege of the Russian Czar in 1813–27.In 1813, he was allowed to found a permanent theatre house in Turku, the "Bonuviers Teater"; the building was completed in 1817.