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After studying first history and then theatre studies at the northern university of Groningen, Henk stayed in the north, working variously as business and artistic director of theatre groups, as theatre critic and as dramaturge. In 1987 he moved south to become director of Zuidlandtheater in Terneuzen. Between 1992-1998 years he worked as director of the following funding bodies: Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten; PodiumKunstWerk; Fonds voor Amateurkunst. In 1998 Henk returned to being director of a single theatre, this time of the City Theatre in Utrecht (Stadsschouwburg Utrecht). Here he became known for the so-called Utrecht model, a collaborative structure involving both theatre companies and venues throughout the city. He organized international festivals dealing with theatre from Central and Eastern Europe (Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained) and was the founder of the international Vrede van Utrecht program, dedicated to the relationship between art and social conflict. During the last twenty years Henk Scholten has been a member of the National Arts Council and of Arts Councils in Groningen, The Hague and Utrecht. Henk Scholten has been director of Theater Instituut Nederland since January 2007. |
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