Since 2001, he has been the general director of International Theater Amsterdam (formerly known as Toneelgroep Amsterdam), the prime theatre company of The Netherlands and the official municipal theatre company of Amsterdam.

From 1998 until 2004, van Hove was festival manager of the Holland Festival, where he presented an annual selection of international theatre, music, opera and dance. He put on a production of Janáček's De Zaak Makropoulos, and Tchaikovsky's Iolanta for the De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. At the Vlaamse Opera, he staged a production of Alban Berg's opera Lulu, as well as the complete Ring Cycle by Richard Wagner (2006–08). Van Hove directed the musical Rent for Joop van den Ende. He has directed companies from Hamburg's Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Staatstheater Stuttgart, directed Hedda Gabler, The Little Foxes and Scenes from a Marriage at the New York Theatre Workshop and the award-winning A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic.Īpart from the theatre, van Hove directed Thuisfront for Dutch television his first cinematic film, Amsterdam, came out in 2009. He has coordinated productions at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Venice Biennale, the Holland Festival, Theater der Welt, and the Wiener Festwochen. Since 2001, van Hove has been general director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam (the Amsterdam theatre group). Between 19 he worked as the director of Het Zuidelijk Toneel. He was artistic manager at AKT, Akt-Vertical and then De Tijd.

He was made a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France in 2004, and a Commander in the Order of the Crown in 2016.īorn in Heist-op-den-Berg, van Hove began his career as a stage director in 1981, working with plays he had written himself such as Ziektekiemen ( Germs) and Geruchten ( Rumors). Among his numerous awards he has received a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award for A View from the Bridge. On Broadway, he has directed revival productions of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, and The Crucible (both in 2015), Lee Hall's Network in 2018, and Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story in 2020. Ivo van Hove (born 28 October 1958) is a Belgian theatre director known as the artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam in the Netherlands and for his Off-Broadway avant-garde experimental theatre productions.

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