Ivo van Hove (born 1958) is a Belgian theater director best known as the artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam in The Netherlands as well as for his avant garde experimental theater productions on Off-Broadway.[1][2]
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He began his career as a stage director in 1981, working with plays he had written himself (Ziektekiemen, Geruchten). He 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. He produced Thuisfront for Dutch television and his first cinematic film, Amsterdam, came out in 2009. Ivo van Hove directed the musical Rent for Joop van den Ende. At the Vlaamse Opera, he staged a production of Lulu (Alban Berg) and the complete Ring Cycle by Wagner (2006–2008). He put on a production of Janáček’s De Zaak Makropoulos and Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta for the De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. 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.
At the Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Van Hove has directed Angels in America by Tony Kushner, the marathon performance of Romeinse Tragedies based on the work of Shakespeare, Opening Night by John Cassavetes, Rocco and his brothers by Luchino Visconti and Teorema based on the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini (in partnership with the Ruhrtriennale), Antonioni-project by Michelangelo Antonioni, Kreten en gefluister (Cries and Whispers) by Ingmar Bergman, La voix humaine (The Human Voice) by Jean Cocteau, Zomertrilogie (Summer Trilogy) by Carlo Goldoni, Kinderen van Zon (Children of the sun) by Gorki for Toneelgroep Amsterdam and NTGent and Nooit van elkaar by Jon Fosse.
His future plans include: Ludwig II based on the work of Visconti for the Muenchener Kammerspiele in Munich and The Russians! Platonv meets Ivanov by Tom Lanoye for Toneelgroep Amsterdam.
Awards Van Hove has regularly received accolades, including two Obie Awards for the best production of an off-Broadway production in New York (for More Stately Mansions and Hedda Gabler), the East Flanders Oeuvre Prize (1995), the Theatre Festival Prize (1996) and the Archangel Award at the Edinburgh Festival (1999). He 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.
“Ivo van Hove's work has been groundbreaking in opening up audiences' understanding of classic texts and films. His work is unique, raw, shocking, surprising, hilarious – everything you want theatre to be – and he doesn't shy away from the ugly or the profane. In a word, stunning, with a capital ‘S’. ” Cate Blanchett
2011 Ludwig II by Luchino Visconti with Münchner Kammerspiele
2010 The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman with New York Theatre Workshop
Der Menschenfeind by Molière with Schaubühne Berlin
2008 Kameliendame by Alexandre Dumas fils; coproduction TA / Schauspielhaus Hamburg
2007 The misanthrope by Molière with New York Theatre Workshop
2006 Der Geizige by Molière with Staatstheater Stuttgart
2005 Faces by John Cassavetes for Theater der Welt; co-production with Schauspielhaus Hamburg and Staatstheater Stuttgart
2004 Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen with New York Theatre Workshop
2000 Alice in Bed by Susan Sontag with New York Theatre Workshop (co-production with Zuidelijk Toneel and Holland Festival)
1998 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams with New York Theatre Workshop
1996 More Stately Mansions by Eugene O’Neill with New York Theatre Workshop
1995 Gier unter Ulmen (Desire Under the Elms) by Eugene O’Neill with Staatstheater Stuttgart
1993 Die Bakchen (The Bacchae) by Euripides with Schauspielhaus Hamburg
2005-2006 Perfect Wedding by Charles Mee Opening night by John Cassavetes Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
2004-2005 Het temmen van de feeks (The Taming of the Shrew) by William Shakespeare Scènes uit een huwelijk (Scenes From a Marriage) by Ingmar Bergman
2003-2004 De kruistochten (The Norman Conquests) by Alan Ayckbourn (co-production with Holland Festival) Rouw siert Electra (Mourning Becomes Electra) by Eugene O'Neill
2002-2003 Drie zusters (Three Sisters) by Anton Tchechov Othello by William Shakespeare Carmen by Oscar van Woensel after Prosper Mérimée and Bizet
2001-2002 Con Amore by Jef Aerts after L’Incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi
2000-2001 True Love by Charles Mee (co-production with Holland Festival) The Massacre at Paris by Hafid Bouazza after Christopher Marlowe
Zuidelijk Toneel 1999-2000 Alice in Bed by Susan Sontag (co-production with New York Theatre Workshop and Holland Festival) De dame met de camelia’s (La Dame aux camélias) by Alexandre Dumas
1998-1999 India Song by Marguerite Duras (co-production with Holland Festival)
1997-1998 Romeo en Julia (studie van een verdrinkend lichaam) (Romeo and Juliet: A study of a drowning body) by Peter Verhelst after Shakespeare (co-production with Holland Festival)
1996-1997 Koppen (Faces) by John Cassavetes (co-production with Holland Festival) De onbeminden (Les Mal Aimés) by François Mauriac
1995-1996 Caligula by Albert Camus
1994-1995 De tramlijn die Verlangen heet (A Streetcar Named Desire) by Tennessee Williams Splendid's by Jean Genet
1993-1994 Rijkemanshuis (More Stately Mansions) by Eugene O'Neill (co-production with Holland Festival) 1992-1993 Hamlet by William Shakespeare (co-production with Antwerp European Cultural Capital 1993) Gered (Saved) by Edward Bond
1991-1992 Het Begeren onder de Olmen (Desire Under the Elms) by Eugene O'Neill Toch zonde van die hoer (’Tis a Pity She’s a Whore) by John Ford
1990-1991 Ajax/Antigone by Sophocles Het Zuiden (South) by Julien Green
1988-1989 Rouw siert Electra (Mourning Becomes Electra) by Eugene O'Neill
Theater van het Oosten 1989-1990 Richard II by William Shakespeare
De Tijd 1989-1990 Jakow Bogomolow by Maxim Gorki Lulu by Frank Wedekind (co-production with Toneelgroep Amsterdam)
1988-1989 Don Carlos by Friedrich von Schiller
1987-1988 In de eenzaamheid van de katoenvelden (Dans la solitude des champs de coton) by Bernard-Marie Koltès Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Akt/Vertikaal 1986-1987 Bacchanten (The Bacchae) by Euripides
1985-1986 Russische Openbaring (Russian Gambit) by Heiner Müller ImitatieS (ImitationS) (group project)
1984-1985 India Song by Marguerite Duras Wonderen der mensheid (Miracles of Humanity) (group project) Wilde heren (Wild Men) (group project)
Vertikaal 1982-1983 De Lijfknecht (The Servant) by Harold Pinter
Akt 1983-1984 Marokko (Morocco) by Botho Strauss Agatha by Marguerite Duras
1982-1983 Als in de oorlog (Like in the War) by Sophocles/Gie Laenen (as part of Europalia)
1981-1982 Ziektekiemen (Germs) by Ivo van Hove Geruchten (Rumours) by Ivo van Hove
Opera 2010 Idomeneo, Re di Creta by Mozart with De Munt Opera, Brussels
2006 Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner with The Flemish Opera
2004 Iolanta by Pjotr Tchaikovsky with Nederlandse Opera
2002 De zaak Macropulos (The Macropulos Case) by Leoš Janáček with Nederlandse Opera
1999 Lulu by Alban Berg (after Wedekind) with The Flemish Opera
Musical 2000 Rent by Jonathan Larson with Joop van den Ende Theater Productions
Television 1997 Thuisfront (Home Front) (NPS) by Peter van Kraaij (co-production with Zuidelijk Toneel)
Fourteen nominations for the Theatre Festival: MacBeth, Lulu, Ajax/Antigone, Het Begeren onder de Olmen, Rijkemanshuis, Caligula, Koppen, Romeo en Julia, De Onbeminden, India Song, De dame met de Camelia’s, Rouw siert Electra, Kruistochten and Opening Night.
2005 Obie Award Best direction, best actor, best actress, best set design (for: Hedda Gabler)
2004 Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French embassy for his valuable contribution to the development of art and culture in an international context
1999 Johan Fleerackers Prize for collaboration between Dutch and Flemish theatre Arch Angel for best direction at the Edinburgh Festival, for India Song
1998 Herald Angel at the Edinburgh Festival, for More Stately Mansions Obie Award for best direction of an off-Broadway production, for More Stately Mansions
1997 Oeuvre Prize from East Flanders
1995 Thalia Prize for oeuvre
1996 Theatre Festival Prize for Caligula
1994 Publieks (Audience) Prize for Rijkemanshuis
1987 Oscar de Gruyter Prize for best direction for Macbeth