Jetse Batelaan

Jetse Batelaan, born in Leiden in 1978, has been the artistic director of Theater Artemis since 2013. He graduated as a director from the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance in 2003. Already during his studies he made striking plays with long titles and barely a word of dialogue. After his graduation he worked at the Gasthuis Theater in Amsterdam. During that time, he made his first children’s play at Theatergroep Max. From 2009 until 2012 he was a resident director at the Ro Theater in Rotterdam. At Theater Artemis he works in radical ways to establish a company that pushes boundaries and opens up new spaces to operate in. Jetse Batelaan has received multiple prizes and awards for his work. In 2019, he was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale and in 2020 the ITI prize in Düsseldorf.

The Magazine Vrij Nederland wrote about him: “Batelaan peels back mundane acts into their bare essence while simultaneously giving them a dream-like absurdity. His direction is a wonderful summation of minimalism and variety show.”