Roos van Waveren — Design & Art Direction
I design for people who make things happen in a room — theatre companies, small publishers, festivals that run on volunteer hours and good will. The work moves between print, identity, and the odd stage set.
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Projects
- GEEP - afstudeerwerk (2026) — My graduation project GEEP is a multi-narrative work existing of poems, theater scènes, photography, lino prints and a screenplay. It explores the question if leaving from and returning to Zeeland as an outcast is worth it
- Kantelpunten (voor de voorstelling: Twijfelmoed) (2025) — Written for a collaboration between STUT theater and HKU theater exploring how experiences with Dutch Child Services could be turned into art, where students and experts by experience spend several weeks together
- Jongerentheater KRANG! (2017-2023) — During multiple years Jongerentheater KRANG! rehearsed a play based on a famous film in just in one week. I designed, collected and adjusted the costumes for the plays Maanlicht, Kill Bill, Titanic and Alice.
- De man, de vrouw en de schilder (2018) — Set and costume design for a short play developed for a collaboration between MBO Theaterschool Rotterdam and Toneelacademie Maastricht.
- Five out of Ten (2019) — During my studies at the MBO Theaterschool I designed these costumes for the (quite big) cast of the graduation play Five out of Ten. The play was directed by Lynn Schutters, and performed in English by students studying to become actors.
- HARTHOOFD (2025) — During a short residency at Theater Kikker actress and director Maxime Vandommele worked on a new play. Exploring how one can connect their heart to their head again, and can carry what was, is, and will come at the same time. On invitation my Maxime I wrote a monologue and dialogue on growing older and stepping into motherhood.
- Herhaalrecept (2025) — A short surrealistic play exploring the repetitive themes of visiting a GP, and feeling stuck in the system, as a chronically ill but un(der)diagnosed person.
- Purper (2020) — A short film made during the second year of Writing for Performance, exploring genderroles and desire.
- Screenwriters Gaze (2025) — The group exhibition Framing the Beyond was on show in AG during Queer Film Festival Utrecht. My work Screenwriters Gaze explored forcing the visitor to use their imagination, by combining filmstills that did not show any humans and scenes in screenplay format that focused on queer characters and fantasies.
- Zeeland (2025) — I think every artist should have a niche (or not so niche) subject that they keep coming back to, and explore through different mediums. Mine is the provence Zeeland, the flora and fauna, the inhabitants, the history of the place I grew up in and that of my family.
- New Project (2026) — Description in English.
CV
Categories: Education, Projects, Exhibitions, Publications, Awards & Funds. Education at Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (Bachelor Writing for Performance) and MBO Theaterschool Rotterdam (Scenography).
Contact
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