EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Tony and Olivier-Award successful director Ivo van Hove in all areas.
Belgian-born van Hove has constructed a repute for experimental revisions of Hollywood and Broadway classics together with Broadway revival productions of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, for which he obtained a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award, and The Crucible in addition to Lee Corridor’s Community (starring Bryan Cranston and Tatiana Maslany), All About Eve (with Gillian Anderson within the Bette Davis position) and Stephen Sondheim’s West Aspect Story.
Final yr, van Hove teamed with John Wells to develop Doll at Warner Bros. Tv. The challenge is described as a psychological thriller sequence set within the ruthless world of a contemporary music conservatory. The previous’s creative collaborator, Jan Versweyveld, was set to function manufacturing and lighting designer on the challenge, which marks the duo’s first foray into scripted tv.
The director’s stage work additionally consists of variations of Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, David Bowie’s Lazarus, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, and John Cassavetes’ Opening Evening. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut final yr with a critically-acclaimed manufacturing of Don Giovanni.
Primarily based in Amsterdam, van Hove has served because the director of Worldwide Theater Amsterdam since 2001 and has been an inventive chief of the Dramatic Arts division of the College Faculty Antwerp since 1984.
Different recognitions embrace two Obie Awards, the East Flanders Oeuvre Prize, the Theatre Competition Prize, the Archangel Award on the Edinburgh Competition, the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and the Prijs van de Kritiek within the Netherlands.
