Scenographer and lighting designer Jan Versweyveld trained at the Sint-Lucas Institute in Brussels and at the Royal Academy in Antwerp. In the 1980s, he and Ivo van Hove were two of the founders of the Flemish theatre groups Akt/Vertikaal and Toneelproducties De Tijd. Jan Versweyveld became the regular scenographer of the Zuidelijk Toneel theatre group and joined Toneelgroep Amsterdam in 2001, as head of scenography and the group’s regular designer and photographer. He has worked on numerous productions, including The Crucible (Tony Award nomination) and A View from the Bridge (two Tony Award nominations) on Broadway, Lazarus, Scenes from a Marriage, The Little Foxes, The Misanthrope, Hedda Gabler, Alice in Bed, A Streetcar Named Desire, More Stately Mansions at the NYTW and at Toneelgroep Amsterdam: Angels in America, Cries and Whispers, Rocco and his Brothers, Antonioni Project, The Human Voice, Teorema, Summer Trilogy, Children of the Sun, And We’ll Never Be Parted, The Miser, The Russians!, Husbands, Macbeth, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Danton’s Dead, The Fountainhead, Mary Stuart, Roman Tragedies, Kings of War, The Fountainhead and many more. Jan Versweyveld has been a guest lecturer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and is one of the co-founders of the scenography training programme in Antwerp. Other theatre set and lighting design work includes productions of classics (Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare and Marlowe) and modern plays (Williams, O’Neill, Camus, Mauriac, Genet and Sontag). As well as theatre and dance (ROSAS), his designs for opera include: Lulu and the complete Ring des Nibelungen by the Flemish Opera; I due foscari and La clemenza di Tito for De Munt/La Monnaie Brussels; Fidelio at L’Opéra Palais Garnier; The Makropoulos Case and Iolanta by the Dutch Opera and Brokeback Mountain at Teatro Real. In addition to his work with Ivo van Hove and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, he has collaborated with many internationally renowned directors, including Johan Simons and Pierre Audi. Awards include the Bessie Award in New York for his scenography for Drumming Live; the Obie Award for Hedda Gabler; the Prosceniumprijs and the Amsterdam Prize for Art, together with Ivo van Hove. His scenography for Scenes from a Marriage at the New Theatre Workshop was awarded with the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Scenic Design