Biography of Jeroen van den Berg

Jeroen van den Berg is a playwright-director who teaches at the Directors Course of the Amsterdam Drama Academy. He was awarded the Drama Encouraging Price of the City of Amsterdam for his debut Bosch International in 1993, and the Dutch/Flemish Drama Award 2003 (Taalunie Toneelprijs) for his play Blowing. Blowing has been produced by several Dutch and German companies. The play VielFalt (2006) he directed was selected for the Dutch Theatre Festival TF1 2006-2007. His work has been presented in The Netherlands by Het Oranjehotel, the company he co-founded in 1993, as well as by other companies like Theater van het Oosten (Arnhem) and FACT (Rotterdam) Additionally, he directed and adapted repertory such as The Seagull (Chechov), The Misantrope (Molière), The Birthday Party (Pinter), Private Lives (Coward) and Ivanov (Tsjechov). He participated in The Lark Theatre's Playwrights Workshop 2006-2007 in New York. His play Polaroid has been presented in New York as a Lark Theatre Studio Retreat. Translated plays: Polaroid (English, German, Bulgarian) Blowing (English, German, French, Rumanian, Hungarian) Schopenhauer's Wife (Tsjech). Blessuretijd (English u.c., German u.c.)