Teunkie Van Der Sluijs

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Full Name	Teunkie Van Der Sluijs
Occupation	Theatre Director
Date Of Birth	Jan 18, 1981(1981-01-18)
Age	43
Birthplace	Roermond
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	Limburg
Horoscope	Capricorn

Teunkie Van Der Sluijs Biography

Teunkie Van Der Sluijs is one of the most popular and richest Theatre Director who was born on January 18, 1981 in Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands. Teunkie Van der Sluijs is a British-Dutch theatre director and translator of plays working mostly with the United Kingdom and the Netherlands but occasionally on his native United States. He was born in the Netherlands in 1981 Van Der Sluijs enrolled in drama in The University of Amsterdam before studying the art of directing at the London’s Rose Bruford College and training at the National Film and Television School.

Van der Sluijs was employed by HOME Theatre in Manchester and as director on a contract basis for various theatres like that of the Orange Tree Theatre, Arcola Theatre, Assembly Rooms Edinburgh and Battersea Arts Centre, and directed an Off West End Award nominated revival of Michael Wall’s Women Laughing in 2012. He was the director and adapted Mathieu Kassovitz the movie La Haine for the stage as HATE, which was performed in the Netherlands as well as in London’s Barbican Theatre. He was an assistant director of the Royal National Theatre, after serving as associate director of the Orange Tree Theatre under artistic director Sam Walters, where he was also an associate director for Lars Noren’s Autumn & Winter and directed the London premiere of Jon Fosse’s Winter. He also directed works created by Boris Vian at the Pleasance Theatre as well as work composed by Robert Holman, and by Howard Barker.

van the Sluijs was a translator for American as well as British productions for Dutch audience, including Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry, The Mountaintop, Motortown and Lungs and also transcribing plays into English in Dutch. In a 2012 interview , he spoke to Dutch weekly newspaper Het Parool, Van Der Sluijs outlined the differences between the different theatre styles of The Netherlands and the UK in the form of “In the Netherlands, the director is primary; in England, it’s the playtext, followed by the actors.” Prior to becoming director of theatre Van Der Sluijs was a regular as an actor on the longest-running and highest-rated soap show Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden in 2004.

Teunkie Van Der Sluijs Net Worth

Teunkie Van Der Sluijs is one of the richest Theatre Director from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Teunkie Van Der Sluijs 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Van der Sluijs performed the UK debut on the stage in 2008 in Yasser produced by Abdelkader Benali. It was a show that moved to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to Chopin Theatre, Chicago, Arcola Theatre in London and the Royal Theatre in The Hague. The show was chosen as Critic’s Choice by the two publications The Sunday Times (“Pick of the Fringe”) as well as The Chicago Tribune, despite meeting with mixed critiques. While the Edinburgh Evening News praised its “sensitive direction” and trade paper The Stage wrote of it as “captivating and emotionally supple,”, The Chicago Sun-Times described it as “a solid piece of acting, but not exactly a revelatory story.” Van Der Sluijs went on to direct The Arcola Theater’s Grimeborn Festival, and was given the first TS Eliot Exchange bursary between the Old Vic Theatre and the Public Theater New York City.

In May of 2010, while visiting New York City to direct Omar El-Khairy’s production Longitude in The Public Theater, Van Der Sluijs was witnessing the failed terrorist attack at Times Square when on his journey to a show on Broadway The story later was featured on BBC as well as in the Dutch daily De Telegraaf.

Van Der Sluijs has directed for a range of venues and companies in the Netherlands, often directing Dutch language premieres of British and American plays. He directed the first Dutch production of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, for which production company Well Made Productions won the 2017 Amsterdam Award for the Arts, as well as its response play Beneatha’s Place by Kwame Kwei-Armah for Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam. Other work includes the Dutch premiere production of The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, and Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs,, as well as Simon Stephens’ Motortown. Original Dutch plays in his direction include Waterdragers for Het Zuidelijk Toneel and Ik Weet Van Geen Herinnering for Festival aan de Werf. He worked as resident director on ANNE, a new adaptation of Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl adapted by Leon de Winter and Jessica Durlacher for the purpose-built Theater Amsterdam. Earlier work includes productions at the Royal Theatre in The Hague, the home of the national theatre of the Netherlands, for the Compagnietheater – its temporary Amsterdam venue – and the Rozentheater, formerly Amsterdam’s primary venue for theatre for young audiences.

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