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Kinderen van de zon

Ivo van Hove

Peter van Kraaij

Jan Versweyveld

Tal Yarden

An d'Huys

Jacob Derwig, Hilde van

Mieghem,Chris Nietveit, Wim Opbrouck, Frieda Pittoors, Halina Reijn, Vanja Rukavina, Thomas Ryckewaert, Gijs Schölten van Aschat, Lien Wildemeersch

Jan Versweyveld

Toneelgroep Amsterdam/NTGent

Vera Konjović

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TERAZIJE THEATRE

began his career as a stage director in 1981, working with plays he had written himself ( Ziektekiemen , Geruchten). Fie was artistic manager at AKT, Akt-Vertical and De Tijd, successively. Between 1990 and 2000 he was the director at Het Zuidelijk Toneel Since 2001, Van Hove has been general director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam (the Amsterdam Theatre Group). He has coordinated productions at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Venice Biennale, the Holland Festival, Theater der Welt in Germany, the Wiener Festwochen in Vienna, as well as working in London, Canada, Lisbon, Paris, Verona, Hannover, Porto, Cairo, Poland and New York. He has directed companies from the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Staatstheater in Stuttgart and the New York Theatre Workshop. From 1998 to 2004, Ivo van Hove was festival manager of the Holland Festival, where he presented an annual selection of international theatre, music, opera and dance. Since 1984, Van Hove has worked as part of the artistic management of the Department of Dramatic Art at Hogeschool Antwerpen. Van Hove has received regular many accolades, including two Obie Awards for the best production of an off-Broadway

production in New York (for More Stately Mansions and Hedda Câbler), the East Flander Oeuvre Prize (1995), the Theatre Festival Prize (1996) and the Archangel Award at the Edinburgh Festival (1999). Fie was made a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France in 2004, in 2007 he received the Prijs van de Kritiek in the Netherlands, a prize awarded by theatre critics. In 2008, he also received the Prosceniumprijs, a Dutch theatre prize, together with Jan Versweyveld,

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