Kathleen studied Sinology and Anthropology and built a career in the fields of development cooperation, health promotion and education. The common thread throughout her professional career is her experience in project management: from setting up and formulating projects to successfully managing and monitoring them. She works in close collaboration with a wide range of partners, both nationally and internationally, in different settings.
Anders Larsson leads the Lighting design working group.
Anders Larsson has worked as theatre technician and lighting designer in the Performing Arts sector since mid-1980s. Between 1990 and 2004, Anders Larsson worked as the lighting director at the House of Dance (Dansens hus) in Stockholm responsible for adapting guest performances from around the world to the stage at Dansens hus. He has also been lighting designer for a number of major productions for dance, opera and theatre.
In early 1990, Anders Larsson started to teach and be responsible for the stage management course at the Theatre Technician Training at the Dramatic Institute (Dramatiska Institutet – DI).
1999 Anders Larsson become responsible for developing and managing the Advanced Vocational Training (KY-utbildning) of Technical Theatre at the Dramatic Institute. He was responsible for that training until 2005 when it become part of Stockholm Academy for Dramatic Arts´ – SADA´s Theatre Technician education until it´s ending spring 2019.
From autumn 2019 Anders Larsson is manageing and teaching for the education in Technical Management of Productions in the Performing Arts sector.
In addition to responsibility and coordination of all guest teachers, Anders Larsson teach in the field of history of the theater building and it´s development, overall stage technology and safety in theatre productions and everything related to basic lighting technology.
2014 Stockholm University of the Arts – SKH was founded out of Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts – StDH/SADA, the University Collage for Opera – OH, and the University Collage for Dance and Circus – DOCH.
Within SKH Anders Larsson also is involved in a number of education issues related to the Performing Arts industry. This includes issues regarding electrical safety in the event sector, the development of an international rigging-certifikat, certification for stage builders and certification of pyrotechnics.
Anders Larsson has also during the time at DI, SADA and SKH been taking part in several European projects such as: Theatre Technincal Training in EU – TTT (2005-2007), Live Performance Technics in EU – LPT (2007-2009), Development and implementation of courses for theatre technicians and stage managers – ScenTec (2013-2015) and European Technical Training Education – ETTE (2014-2017).
Anders Larsson also serves in the board of the Swedish Theatre Technical Association – STTF – which also includes work in the organization OISTAT. He is also Chair for the Association of Swedish Lighting Designers – SLF since the foundation in 1992.
Bri Newesely leads the set design working group.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bri Newesely: Born in Innsbruck (Austria). Fine Arts and Architecture at the Universität der Künste Berlin and Set Design at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee Berlin (Germany). Since 1996, freelance set designer, architect and technical supervisor; 2002, approved as a certified “Bühnenmeister” (stage manager); 2008 PhD “Das Bühnenportal im Theater der Gegenwart”. Since 2009 professor at the Beuth-Hochschule-University of Applied Sciences Berlin in Scenography and Theatre Architecture. Since 2014 member of the International Observatory of Scenic Spaces at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). She lives in Berlin, Innsbruck and Arenys de Lledó (Spain).
Bastiaan Schoof has been a senior lecturer in lighting and light design at the University of Arts Amsterdam since 2016. He is also one of the members of the Dutch Institute of Light Design (iLo). He participates in the Canon II lighting design working group and the lighting technology working group. He will serve as the expert researcher for this project, drawing on his expertise in light, light design, and education.
Bastiaan began his career with lighting in theatre while studying in Groningen. At that time, the newly built University Theatre was ready and in need of volunteers. It all started with a simple question: “Do you want to help for two weeks in the University Theatre?” Obviously, he said yes, and it lasted a bit longer than two weeks.
He joined a group of volunteer students in a theatre equipped with six ADB PC’s, a couple of ADB Fresnels, six Strand Pattern 23’s, two ADB dimmers with six channels, and an ADB manual lighting console. Alongside a manual six-dimmer system with levers from the 1970’s, as sometimes more than twelve channels were needed. It was 1989.
After a year experience with lighting, he was asked by a theatre festival from the art academy to assist a theatre performance, made by Finnish theatre students. A year later, he was invited to work for the NNT, the professional touring theatre group in the North of the Netherlands. That was the start of his professional career in the world of lighting for theatre and live events. First in and around Groningen and from 1999 in and around Amsterdam. Today, Bastiaan works in various fields of the lighting world. He serves as a teacher, workshop leader, light designer, maker, expert researcher, and curator for light art
Since 2016, he has been a senior lecturer in lighting and light design at the department of Design & Technology at the University of Arts Amsterdam. Prior to that, he worked as a teacher in vocational education in Amsterdam from 2003 until 2016.
With his extensive knowledge of education, he was involved in three EU education projects: since 2015 in the ETTEC project focused on safety on stages, since 2021 in the ESSENCE project, contributing his expertise on competencies, and in 2023 and 2024, he participated in the TEBEVAT project, another EU initiative for the validation and recognition of prior learning.
In addition, he is a light designer for location-based theatre. In recent years, he has primarily focused on creating light art in public spaces through his Happy Tunnel project, which has resulted in five permanent light artworks in Amsterdam.
Bastiaan was also instrumental in the launch of the Amsterdam Light Festival in 2012, where he worked for almost ten years. He founded the team responsible for building and installing the artworks, utilizing the operational methods typical of a technical theatre team. He has helped, advised, and selected locations for approximately 300 light-artworks, overseeing projects from existing pieces to the development of ideas and concepts through to installation.
In 2021, he founded his own light art exhibition in Utrecht, titled “I Light U,” where he serves as the artistic director and curator. Additionally, he advises other light art projects and festivals.
He is also involved with the Dutch Institute of Light Design (iLo), where he organizes several expert talks each year. Currently, iLo is part of the Canon II project. Together with Isabel Nielen, he will serve as the expert researcher for this project, drawing on his expertise in light, light design, and education.
More about Bastiaan in Dutch: article in the alumni university magazine of the University Groningen:
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Chris van Goethem leads the Canon II project and the Lighting Technology working group.
Chris Van Goethem started in 1983 as a technician in a rental company, as most of us in this time. By self-education he became stage manager and travelled around Europe with a lot of Belgian companies. Later on he started to work as consultant and educator in technical theatre. He researches the history of technical theatre and was part of the “Changement a vue” research project At the moment he is part of the “Fading lights” project. Both projects are conducted in cooperation with SADA, Uniarts, Stockholm. He is member of the board of STEPP, the Belgian professional organization of technicians.
After a career as a professional lighting technician and designer, Nick started teaching lighting design at Rose Bruford College. He went on to become Head of the School of Design, Management and Technical Arts for twelve years, and he now a Research Fellow and Professor of Lighting Design and Performance Technologies.
Nick’s practice-based doctoral thesis ‘Repositioning the Role of the Lighting Artist in Live Theatre Performance’ investigated how the role of the theatre lighting artist might be more akin to a performer than a designer. His current research interests include: the performative potential of light; photography, light and performance; digital scenography and digital performance; the history of theatre lighting; and the roles and status of the various personnel involved in theatre-making.
Nick is a past co-convenor of the TaPRA Scenography working group in the UK and the Scenography working group of the International Federation for Theatre Research.
Rose bruford staff – Nick Hunt
https://bruford.academia.edu/NickHunt
Director of the Theatre Institute, Czech Cultural Institute (NIK), Prague
Ondrĕj Svoboda graduated at the University of Olomouc. Since 1997, he has been working in the Arts and Theatre Institute (ATI), since 2004 as a Deputy Director for the Theatre Institute. After changing ATI to the Czech Cultural Institute (Národní institut pro kulturu, NIK) in 2025, he works as the director of the Theatre Institute. He has created and implemented several projects focused on digitisation and databases for theatre documentation.
He directed the international project Theatre Architecture in Central Europe (2008-2011) in the frame of which the online Database of theatre architecture was developed, a digitalization project called Preservation and Presentation of the Cultural Heritage of Czech and World Theatre (2009-2011) focused on processing rich photographic archive of Czech theatre deposited in the ATI and the follow-up project Virtual Study which is a comprehensive online interface enabling the access to all the Institute’s information databases and digitised materials.
He also participates in the international project European Route of Historic Theatres (2012-2017) in the frame of which the historic theatres across Europe are researched and promoted. He participated in several issues of Prague Quadrennial as the head of documentation (2007, 2011) and EU project consultant (2011, 2015, 2019). From 2019, he participated in the project „A Canon of Theatre Technology History“.
https://www.idu.cz/en/about-us/research/researchers/mgr.-ondrej-svoboda
