Curriculum Vitae for Eugene Adrianus Peter Bernardus van Erven (Born: 10 Februay 1955, Goirle, the Netherlands) Artistic Director, Rotterdam International Community Arts Festival Professor of Media, Performance and the City, Utrecht University
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Education and Qualifications
Professor of Media, Performance and the City, Utrecht University, July 2015 - present.
Head of Department, Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, August 2015 - present.
Holds Senior Qualification Teaching (2001) and Research (1 April 2009) at UU.
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN (USA), May 1985. Dissertation: ‘Contemporary People’s Theatre: A Study of the Radical Popular Theatre from 1968 to the Present.’
Doctoraal in Engelse Taal- en Letterkunde (M.A. in English Language and Literature), Utrecht University, cum laude, June 1979. Thesis: ‘A Structural Analysis of Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet.’
Graduate Studies in English, University of Florida, Gainesville (USA), 1977-78.
Kandidaats in Engelse Taal- en Letterkunde (B.A. in English), Utrecht University, June 1977. Secondary Education: R.K. Niels Stensen Atheneum (1971-73) and R.K. Gerardus Majella M.A.V.O. (1966- 1970), both in Utrecht.
I.1 Books and Monographs
Editor, International Community Arts Festival: The Way We Move. Loughborough and Rotterdam: Charnwood Arts & ICAF, 2018.
(With photographer Peter van Beek and videographer Angie Hernández Izquierdo), ICAF In the Picture. Rotterdam: RWT, 2015. Photobook + video.
Community Arts Dialogues. Utrecht: Vrede van Utrecht, 2013. Book + Video.
Editor, Community, Art, Power: Essays From ICAF 2011. Rotterdam: RWT, 2013. Book + Video.
Leven Met Verschillen: Jonge theatermakers op zoek naar zichzelf als kunstenaar in de wijk. Amsterdam: International Theatre and Film Books, 2010.
Editor, Rotterdam International Community Theatre Festival 2008, an Extensive Report, Rotterdam: RWT, 2009.
Community Theatre: Global Perspectives, London and New York: Routledge, 2001/3. (Book and Professionally Produced Video package; republished in November 2002 as an e-Book)
(with Susan Mason), Edgy Storytellers, Houten: Atalanta / IDEA, 1997 (video + study book for theatre schools)
The Playful Revolution: Theatre and Liberation in Asia, Bloomington and Indianapolis (USA): Indiana University Press, 1992. (Still in print)
(with Jan Weerdenburg, eds.), Image and Imagination of America, Utrecht: Studium Generale, 1992.
Stages of People Power: The Philippines Educational Theater Association, The Hague: CESO/NUFFIC, 1989.
Radical People’s Theatre, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988.
I.2 Articles and Book Chapters
‘Locating Risk in the Right Place: A Conversation with James Thompson’, in Eugene van Erven, ed. International Community Arts Festival: The Way We Move. Loughborough and Rotterdam: Charnwood Arts & ICAF, 2018.
‘Saint Martin’s Secret’, in Jürgen Pelzer, ed. Formen des Engagements / Forms of Engagement: Gedenkschrift für Hans Joachim Schulz. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2018 (forthcoming).
'Foreword'. In Sanjoy Ganguly. From Boal to Jana Sanskriti: Practice and Principles. London and New York: Routledge, 2017: x-xii.
'Towards a New Cutting Edge: Where Avant-Garde Meets Community Art', TDR/The Drama (Winter 2016), Vol. 60, No. 4 (T232): 92–107.
'Plays, Applause and Bullets: The Street Theatre of Safdar Hashmi', Art Critique of Taiwan (in Chinese) 69 (July 2016).
'The Tension Between Community and Art', Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance 20, 4 (August 2015), 407-411. Prologue for Eva García's article, 'Artes Escénicas y Comunidad', Abierto al Público (Journal of the Spanish Network of Public Theatres, Auditoriums, Circuits and Festivals). (June 2015.)
'Artes Comunitárias: origens e presença no mundo', in Hugo Cruz, ed. Arte e Comunidade. Lisbon: Gulbenkian Foundation, 2015, 61 - 85.
'Community Art and Social Inclusion: Far From a Matter of Course', in Cinzia Laurelli and Isabella Bercari, eds. Artes Conference Proceedings. Collodi, Italy: Fondazione Collodi, 2015, 84-89. http://artescommunity.eu/wp- content/uploads/2015/11/ARTES-2014-Florence-Conference-Proceedings.pdf
‘Ludic Box: Playful Alternatives from Guatemala for the World’, in Tim Prentki, ed. Applied Theatre: Development. London: Bloomsbury Methuen, 2015, 222 – 245.
‘Exploring the Peace Building Potential of Community Arts’, in Larry O’Farrell, Shifra Schonmann and Ernst Wagner, eds. International Yearbook for Research in Arts Education 2/2014. New York and Münster: Waxmann, 2014, 146 - 149.
‘Community Art and the National Conversation’, in Lucia van Heteren, Pascal Gielen & Quirijn van den Hoogen, eds. The Fight for Art. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011, 62-70
(with Kate Gardner), ‘Performing Cross-Cultural Conversations: Creating New Kinships through Community Theatre’, in Cynthia Cohen, Polly Walker and Roberto Guttiérrez Varea, eds. Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict Volume II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities. Oakland, CA: New Village Press, 2011, 9 – 42.
(with Margreet Bouwman and Margreet Zwart), ‘Speuren naar effecten van community art’, in Teunis IJdens, Marjo van Hoorn, Andries van den Broek, Christ van Rensen, eds. Jaarboek Actieve Cultuurparticipatie 2011: Participanten, projecten, beleid. Utrecht: Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie, 110-126.
(with Kees Vuyk, Linda Poelman and Ivana Cerovecki), 'To be Dutch or not to be Turkish, that is the question, or, how to measure the reception of a community-based play about living between cultures', Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 15, 3 (August) 2010): 339 – 359.
‘Op Zoek naar de Kern’, Boekman 82 (Voorjaar 2010): 8 – 15.
'Intracultural Dialogue as a Conceptual Frame for Community Performance', Theater Topics 4, Amsterdam University Press, 2009.
'Philippine Community Theatre in the 1990s', in Petra Kuppers and Gwen Robertson, eds. The Community Performance Reader, London and New York: Routledge, 2007, 274-280.
'Taking It To the Streets: Dutch Community Theatre Goes Site-Specific', Research in Drama Education 12, 1 (February 2007): 27 - 39.
'Reversing the Trade Winds: Some Theoretical and Practical Considerations Regarding Community Theatre in Aruba', in Maaike Bleeker et al., eds., Multicultureel Drama?, Amsterdam University Press, 2005, 89 – 95.
'The Problem with Community', Performance Research Volume 9, Number 4 (December 2004): 142ff.
'Highland Park, Los Angeles: Community Development Through Theatre', in Hans Krabbendam, Marja Roholl, Tity de Vries, eds. The American Metropolis: Image and Inspiration, Amsterdam: Free University Press, 2001, 182-195.
'Some Thoughts on Uprooting Asian Grassroots Theatre', in Jeanne Colleran and Jenny S. Spencer, eds. Staging Resistance: Essays on Political Theatre, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA): Michigan University Press, 1998, 98-122. 'When José Met Sally: Chicano Theatre in L.A. at Grassroots and Mainstream', New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 48 (November 1996): 384-393.
'Indispensable Roots? African American Theatre and the WPA', in Hans Bak et al., eds.. Living in the Welfare State, Social and Secure?, Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1996: 175-183.
(with Karl Adams and Henri Drost), 'Negotiations and Love Songs: Towards a Verifiable Interpretation of Popular Music', in John Dean and Jean-Paul Gabillet, eds. European Readings of American Popular Culture, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996, 78-89.
'Amiri Baraka', Post-War Literatures in English (December 1996): 1 - 18.
'Ed Bullins', Post-War Literatures in English (June 1995): 1 - 22.
'De Speelse revolutie', in Kees Epskamp, ed. Theater in Mondiaal Perspectief, The Hague: CESO / NUFFIC, 1994: 241-251.
‘Over Graswortels en Community Theatre in de V.S.’, in Martin Desloovere, ed. Community Theatre: een verkenning. Amsterdam: International Theatre and Film Books, 1994, 61-68.
‘Interculturele Transplantatie: de (on)mogelijkheden van Derde Wereld Comunity Theatre in Westerse Contexten', in Martin Desloovere, ed. Community Theatre: een verkenning : 41-50.
‘August Wilson’, Post-War Literatures in English (March 1994): 1-18.
'The Philippines Popular Theater Association',” in Kees Epskamp and Ad Boeren, eds. The Empowerment of Culture: Development, Communication, and Popular Media, The Hague: CESO / NUFFIC, 1992: 147-171.
‘Response To Nagpal’, The Drama Review T132 (Winter 1991-1992): 17-19.
‘Freedom, Revolution, and Theater of Liberation’, Research in African Literatures 22 (3) (Summer 1991): 11- 27.
‘Postcolonial Imperialism?’ The Drama Review T127 (Summer 1990):16-20.
‘Tábano: la trayectoria de un teatro comprometido’, Estreno 16 (2) (Fall 1990): 7-11.
'Plays, Applause, and Bullets: Safdar Hashmi's Street Theatre', The Drama Review, Vol 33 (1989), No. 4: 32-48.
‘Beyond the Shadows of. Wayang: Liberation Theatre in Indonesia’, New Theatre Quarterly 17 (February 1989): 36 – 49.
'Resistance Theatre in South Korea: Above and Underground', The Drama Review, Vol. 32 (1988), No. 3: 156- 173.
‘Spanish Political Theatre Under Franco, Suarez, and Gonzalez’, New Theatre Quarterly 4, 13 (February 1988): 135 - 152.
'Philippine Political Theatre and the Fall of Ferdinand Marcos', The Drama Review, Vol. 31 (1987), No. 2: 57- 78.
‘Theater of Liberation in Action: PETA and the People's Theater Network of the Philippines’, New Theatre Quarterly 3, 10 (May 1987): 131 - 149.
‘Theater of Liberation in India, Indonesia, and the Philippines’, Australasian Drama Studies 10 (April 1987): 2- 18. ‘7:84 in 1985: Fourteen Years of Popular Theater for the British Proletariat’, Minnesota Review N.S. 27 (fall 1986): 117 - 122.
'The Satirical Methods of Regional Political Theatre in France', in K.V. Hartigan, ed. Legacy of Thespis: Drama Past and Present, Lanham, Maryland (USA): University Press of America, 1984: 88 - 98.
II. Professional (non-academic) Publications
‘Reflection on Face to Face’, in Heba el Cheikh, ed. Face to Face: Social Media are Older than the Internet. Cairo: Mahatat, 2013.
(with Ivana Cerovecki), ‘Hoe educatie en community art de opera van binnenuit kunnen veranderen’, in Ana Maria Versloot, ed. De Goed Voorbereide Geest: Maakprocessen voor de opera van morgen. Amsterdam: InternationalTheatre and Film Books, 2011, 40-51.
‘De Toneelstukken Machine: De Jaarlijkse Nationale Toneelschrijversworkshops aan het Eugene O’Neill Centre in Waterford, Connecticut’, Toneel Teatraal (January 1993): 30-35.
‘The Philippine Popular Theatre Association’, in Kees Epskamp and Ad Boeren, eds. The Empowerment of Culture: Development, Communication, and Popular Media. The Hague: CESO, 1992, 147-171.
‘Kritische Kultur gegen Show und Business: die Umgestaltung Philippinischer Kultureller Identität’, Südostasien Informationen 8, 1 (March 1992): 53-55.
‘Workshops auf dem Dorf’, Ika 38 (January 1990): 5-10.
‘Theater, Applaus, und Kugeln’, Ika 38 (January 1990): 16-19.
‘PETA coördineert theater training bij onderwijs aan volwassenen: een case study’, in Kees Epskamp, ed. Populaire Cultuur op de planken. 's-Gravenhage: CESO, 1989: 71-81.
‘De Noodzaak van een politieke karavaan’, Toneel Teatraal (November 1989): 38-40.
‘Theater and Liberation: Political Theater that Works (For a Change)’, Illusions 1, 3 (New Zealand 1986): 6-12.
‘Review of Jan Cohen-Cruz’s Radical Street Theatre,’ Documenta (December 1999).
‘Playful Revolutions in Contemporary Asian Theatre’, (in Tamil), Proceedings of the 16th Literary Congress of Tamils in Europe, London: SCG, 1993: 11-20.
‘Voorwoord’, in J.-M. Sison, Gedichten, Utrecht: INPS, 1993: ii-iii.
‘Multiculturele GTST’, Toneel Teatraal (May 1993): 19.
‘De Stad van zij die zingen over platteland en westerlijke dingen’, Meridian International (December 1993): 42-50.
‘Delta van katoen en trieste noten’, Utrechts Nieuwsblad (25 November 1992): 23-25.
‘Zangstem bepaalt op Filippijnen succes’, Utrechts Nieuwsblad (27 April 1992): 4
‘Der weite Kulturmarkt’, Südostasien Informationen 3, 1 (March 1992): 5.
‘De beschermengel van het Lorraine Motel’, Krant op Zondag (18 March 1992): 23. ‘De kunstenaar als politiek activist: progressieve artiesten uit Azië op Nederlands planken’, Politiek en Cultuur (November 1989).
‘Aziatische podiumkunstenaars brengen politiek theater’, Onze Wereld (October 1989): 41-46.
‘Encounter in Yogya’, Minnesota Review N.S. 32 (spring 1989): 18-27.
‘Tragedy Shocks New Delhi's Theatre Movement’, New Theatre Australia 10 (May/June 1989): 40-44.
‘Entrevista con Guillermo Heras’, Gestos: Revista de Teoría y Práctica del Teatro Hispánico 6 (November 1988): 111-120.
‘BUGKOS: The Boldest Step’, Makiisa 2 (Manila, Philippines, April 1988): 9-11.
‘Hakas and Jasmins’, Illusions 6 (Wellington, New Zealand, 1987): 29-36.
‘Philippine People's Theatre Down Under’, New Theatre Australia Vol. I, No. 2 (December 1987): 33-38.
‘Theatre for the People: an Interview with John McGrath of the 7:84 Theatre Company’, Minnesota Review N.S. 27 (fall 1986): 103-116.
‘l'Ail sur le pain culturel français: entretien avec Catherine Bonafé du Teatre de la Carriera’, Contemporary French Civilization 9, 1 (fall/winter 1985):.54-75.
Public Lectures and Media Appearances
‘Probando Nuestras Suposiciones: Los Retos en Europa Para las Artes Escenicas’ Keynote dialogue with François Matarasso, 10th Jornadas Sobre La Inclusion Social en Las Artes Escenicas. 11 May 2018, Centro Dramatico Nacional, Teatro Valle-Inclan, Madrid, Spain. https://www.mecd.gob.es/cultura- mecd/dms/mecd/cultura-mecd/areas-cultura/artesescenicas/artes-escenicas-e-inclusion-social/jornadas-sobre-la- inclusion-social/x-jornadas-sobre-la-inclusion-social/programa-x-jornadas-2018.pdf
Chair, "Revolutions and Violence: Interventions in Public Space." Arts and Activism Conference: Resilience Techniques in Times of Crisis. 14 December 2017, Research Center for Material Culture of the Volkenkunde Museum, Leiden, The Netherlands
'A City You Make Together: About the Power of Neo-Parades in Times of Terror', Conference Opening Keynote, EIRPAC (II Encontro Internacional de Reflexão sobre Práticas Artísticas Comunitárias. 19 September 2017. Teatro Carlos Alberto, Porto, Portugal.
'When it Rains, or worse?' Paper presented at PSI 22 'Performing Climates', University of Melbourne, Australia, 6 July 2016.
'Arte e comunidade', 2-hour public seminar at the Universade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 27 April 2016, Florianopolis, Brazil. 27 April 2016.
'Community Art and Peace Building', 2-hour public seminar, Swedish National Community Arts Forum, Norrsundet, Sweden, 17 October 2015
'From Community Theatre to a Theatre of the Community'. Keynote lecture, Symposium 'Beyond the Pale, Meet the Makers', Earagail Arts Festival, Letterkenny, Ireland, 17 July 2015.
Interview on Community Arts for Spanish Public Television channel TV3. Broadcast in February 2015.
'Community Art and Social Inclusion: Far From a Matter of Course', paper presented at Artes 2014, Fondazione Collodi, Florence (Italy), 15 November 2014. 'Towards a New Cutting Edge: Where Avant-Garde Meets Community Art', paper presented at the Performance Studies International Conference, Shanghai Theatre Academy (China), July 5 2014.
'Arte e Comunidade', presentation at MEXE-II, community theatre festival, Fábrica Rua da Alegria, Porto, Portugal, 21 November 2013.
'Exploring the Radical Roots of Contemporary Community Art', International Conference Radical Theatre Yesterday and Today, Akcent Festival, Goethe Institute, Prague, 14 November 2013.
'Community Arts: Global perspectives', University of KwazuluNatal, Pietermaritzburg (South Africa), 30 October 2013.
‘Arte Comunitario, Inclusion Social y otras palabras de moda’, Institut del Teatre, Barcelona (Spain), 21 March 2013.
‘Community Arts: Global Perspectives’, City Theatre, Gothenburg (Sweden), 17 August, 2012.
‘Community Art and the City: a European View’. Illustrated public lecture, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, 24 November 2011.
‘Back and Forth: the Ethical Boundaries of Community Arts’. Illustrated lectur presented at the ICAN Conference, Letterkenny, Ireland, 19 – 20 May, 2011.
‘El festival Internacional de arte comunitario de Rotterdam’. Keynote presented at the 6th Community Theatre Encounter [Encuentro de Teatro Comunitario] in Madrid, 3 May 2011.
‘Community Arts in the Netherlands’. Presentation at Akzent festival and Symposium, Archa Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic, 7 October 2010.
‘Community Arts and the National Conversation,’ Symposium The Next Step: Community Arts in Broader Perspective, University College Utrecht, 30 June 2010.
‘Uneasy Identities: a comparative analysis of a Dutch Morroccan youth play and an urban Canadian Aboriginal theatre production’. Paper presented at Performance Studies International 16: Performing Publics, York University / Ontario College of Arts and Design, Toronto, 13 June 2010.
‘Looking for Legitimacy: The Battle over Community Arts in the Netherlands’. Theatre Applications Conference, Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, 22 April 2010.
“Community Art Networks in Europe”. Presentation at the Euro-Latin American Working Sessions on Art for Social Transformation. Hellerau (Dresden), European Center for the Arts, 16-19 May 2009.
Co-Convenor, The Next Step: Community Arts in Broader Perspective, University College Utrecht, 30 June 2010.
Convenor, first annual retreat for community art researchers, Community Art Lab, Fort Blauwkapel, Utrecht, 1 April 2009.
Convenor, first annual retreat for community artists, Community Art Lab, Fort aan de Klop, Utrecht, 17 and 18 December 2008.
“Community Art: International Roots and Principles”, keynote presentation, Dramaturges Association of Sweden, Orebro, 4 November 2008.
“Dialogics in Intercultural Community Arts: the Case of the Fathers”, paper presented at the 22nd Global IPRA (international Peace Research Association) Conference 2008, University of Leuven (Belgium), 18 July. Keynote speech, ‘The Multiple Qualities of Community Art’, The Possibilities of the Unlimited Stage Conference, Stadshallen, Lund (Sweden), 14 March 2008.
Panel presentation with Yuyachkani (Peru), John O’Neal (Junebug, New Orleans) and Diajana Milosevic (Dah Theatre Belgrade), Acting Together on the World Stage: Setting the Scene for Peace Conference, Brandeis University (Boston, USA), 4 – 8 October 2007.
(with Rien Sprenger, Mira Kho and Truus Wertheim-Cahen), convenor, Who Cares? working conference on mental health care, social work, art therapy, and community art, Utrecht, RASA, 20 September 2007.
Convenor, ‘Whose Play Is It Anyway?’ working conference on community art, Utrecht, 26-28 November 2006.
Workshop and Lecture Tour through Venezuela under auspices of the Venezualan National Theatre, May 2006.
Keynote lecture on Community Drama, Riksteatern National ‘Theatre Days’ Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, 18 – 20 November 2005.
‘Antillean Youth Theatre in Rotterdam and its Implications for the Caribbean’, paper presented at the 2nd Caribbean International Arts Education Symposium: The Practice and Prospects of Arts Education for Societies- in-Crisis, University of the West Indies, Trinidad, 27 – 30 June, 2005.
“The Trouble with The Trouble With Community”, dialogue with anthropologists Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport, international symposium ‘CIVICCentre: Reclaiming the Right to Performance’, University of Surrey at Roehampton (London, UK), 13 April 2003.
“Dutch Community Theatre and Cultural Memory,” paper presented at the 14th World Congress of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), Amsterdam 2 July 2002.
“Global Perspectives on Community Theatre,” 2-day seminar and practical theatre workshop for M.A. students in Theatre for Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 14-15 February 2002.
“A Web Conversation with Peter Sellars,” world premiere of Guillermo Gomez Peña’s Fetish Museum at the Performance Space, Redfern, Sydney (Australia), 6 July 2001.
N.B. I find it important to emphasize that outside my academic career I am also professionally active in the cultural sector as theatre maker, videographer, curator/programmer, organizer and fundraiser. For the Community Arts Lab (CAL-U) of the Treaty of Utrecht between 2006 and 2013 I managed to acquire subsidies from Doen Foundation, the Netherlands Fund for Cultural Participation, the e-Motive Program of Oxfam-Novib and the City of Utrecht, a.o. The total budget we accumulated for CAL-U exceeded € 500,000. Similarly, for the International Community Arts Festival in Rotterdam I have successfully applied for subsidies from Hivos and again from the Netherlands Fund for Cultural Participation, which last July (2016) re-approved ICAF for the next two years (€ 400,000). Below you find a list of my non- academic professional activities in the arts:
Artistic Director, International Community Arts Festival, 2009 - present. www.icafrotterdam.com. Most recent productions: ICAF Summer School 22 – 29 July 2018, Sala Beckett, Barcelona (co-production with the Grec Festival) and ICAF-7 (March/April 2017), a 5-day multidisciplinary event around the theme of 'Movement'.
Artistic Director, Festival Utrecht Viert Vrede met Community Arts, Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, 20 + 21 juni 2013.
Programmer, Rotterdam International Community Arts Festival, 26 – 30 March 2008.
Artistic Advisor, International Community Theatre Festival Rotterdam, 30 March–3 April 2005.
Director-producer, ‘cuentanan di barrio’, oral history video project in Aruba in collaboration with Instituto di Cultura and the National Library of Aruba, 2004- 2006. Executive Producer, Researcher, Sound Recordist, ‘Community Theatre: Global Perspectives’, a 90-minute feature documentary, published and distributed in 2003 by Routledge in London and New York. Directed by Rod Prosser (Vanguard Films, Wellington, New Zealand) for Memphis Film and Television / Ocean FilmProductions in Utrecht. Earlier screened at the Hoogt cinema in Utrecht for a week, and excerpts on BVN TV and the current affairs program ‘NOVA’ in the fall of 1998.
Producer/co-director (with New Zealander Phillip Mann), Choussy for Beginners, site-specific group devised outdoor show, Courtyard of the Utrecht School of Economics, University College Campus, 7-9 May 2003.
Director/Producer (assisted by Australian director Venetia Gillot), Dot.Comedy, a roaming site-specific performance on digitalization and globalization, catacombes of the University College dining hall, 6-10 May 2002.
Producer, The Tempest (directed by Australian director Venetia Gillot), University College auditorium, 27 Januari-1 February 2002.
Producer/co-director (with Sally Gordon from Los Angeles), Escape, roaming site- specific outdoor performance on the University College campus, 6-9 & 30 May 2001.
Producer/co-director (with Phillip Mann), Time/Flies, site-specific group devised show, University College Campus, May 2000.
Director, Watching Eyes, Originally Devised Multimedia Theatre Show at the University College of Utrecht University, 7 - 10 May 1999.
Producer, Sacred Sites/ Los Angeles, One-Woman Performance by Susan Suntree, U-Theater/ Studio T, 1 July 1998.
Producer, Site-Specific Performance of People Next Door (Canberra) With Richard Murphet (Melbourne), RUU Theatre, Utrecht, 24 - 28 June 1996.
Producer, Phillip Mann's New Zealand Playmaking Workshop, U- Theater/ Studio T, May 1995.
Producer, Video, Film, and Theatre program, Letteren a la Carte, City-wide cultural manifestation from 27 August - 2 September 1994.
Producer, Harry Newman's Human Rights Lunch multimedia show, Achter de Dom, Utrecht, 2 September 1994.
Project Manager, On the Edge, a Multicultural Theatre Project with African American playwright Elroyce Jones and the international theatre and education class, Utrecht College of the Arts, January-April 1993.
Producer, A.J. Gurney's Dining Room, Utrecht University Theatre, 23 June 1992.
Producer, Dutch and French legs of European Tour of Cry of Asia!, a mobile political theatre festival with participants from ten different Asia-Pacific countries, World premiere:Avignon Festival (France), shows in Paris and all major theatres in the Netherlands.
Co-Producer (with Maori poet Roma Potiki), PETA Aotearoa Workshop and Performance Tour for Maori community theater artists, July - August, 1987.
Producer, French recording artist Marc Beacco's New Zealand Tour, July 1987.
Producer/Director, Tangos, Chillies and Red, Red Blood, Union Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, 23-25 April, 1987 (under auspices of Amnesty International-New Zealand) and at South Pacific International Conference For Peace and Justice in Central America, Wellington, 18 July, 1987. Actor, semi-professional production of Janusz Glowacki's Fortinbras Gets Drunk, Nashville, March 1985, Reviewed in Shakespeare Bulletin, May/June 1985:15 - 17).
Assistant-Director/Actor/Composer/Designer, Spanish Department production of Osvaldo Dragún's Historias para ser contadas, Vanderbilt University Theatre, March 1984.
Played Livarot in the American Premiere of Claude Confortés' Le Marathon, Vanderbilt University Theatre, March 1982.
Composer/Actor, French Department production of Alfred de Musset's Les Caprices de Marianne, Vanderbilt University Theatre, March 1981.
Teaching Experience
Supervised scores of M.A. theses for Arts & Society, Theatre Studies, Art Policy and Management, and the English Department since 1988.
Utrecht University, Media & Culture Studies, September 2007 – present: Community Art, Theory and Practice and designer and coordinator of M.A. in Arts & Society (Professor).
Instituto Pedagogico Arubano, 2004 - 2006: papiamento drama and Caribbean Studies.
University College Utrecht, January 1999 – 2004: first, second- and third-year theatre courses. These were a mix of theory, dramatic literature study and collective practical theatre making, drawing on a variety of texts and techniques from all over the world. (Senior Lecturer)
English Department, Utrecht University, August 1988 – August 2000: courses in Modern American Drama, African American Culture, 20th Century American Fiction, The American ‘60s and ‘30s, and American Cultural Influence in the Netherlands. (Lecturer)
Theatre Department, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), April, 1986– July 1987: Political Theatre. (Post-Doc)
English Department, Utrecht University, August – December 1985: Modern British Literature and Drama. (Junior Lecturer)
English Department, Vanderbilt University (USA): English Prose Fiction, Drama, Conversational French. (Teaching Fellow, 1980 - 1985)
Herman Jordan Montessori Lyceum, Zeist, January – May 1979: all VWO levels of English. (Intern)
German Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1978: Dutch language and Culture. (Instructor)
Languages
Native speaker of Dutch; near-native in English; pretty fluent in Spanish, French and German; good knowledge of Papiamento, passive knowledge of Portuguese and Italian.
Miscellaneous
Editorial Board Member and peer reviewer, RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 2010 - present.
Advisory Board member, Performing Ethos: An International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance.
Artistic Board Member, Rotterdams Wijktheater (Rotterdam Neighborhood Theatre), May 2010 – present. Marie Kleine Gartman Award for Theatre Criticism, 2009-2010.
Board Member, ‘PeerGrouP’ (Drenthe) site-specific theatre, June 2008 - present.
Best Teacher Award, University College Utrecht, First Lustrum (1999-2004).
Holds ‘eerstegraads’ secondary school teacher’s qualification (1979).