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Jan Zoet

1958–2024 · Theatre director and theatre studies lecturer

Jan Zoet
Portrait by Joke Schot · Theater Rotterdam

Jan Zoet taught theatre studies at the Interfaculty Beeld en Geluid. He was business manager at Theatergroep Hollandia and became director of the Rotterdamse Schouwburg in 1998. In Rotterdam he helped establish the interdisciplinary Productiehuis Rotterdam and the festival De Internationale Keuze.

From 2013 to 2020 he led the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam, then Amare in The Hague until April 2024. At Amare he was among the people who supported Hugging Architecture, a 2023 exhibition of spatial and performative work by ArtScience students.

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