Bio Ilay den Boer:

The Dutch/Israeli theatre maker Ilay den Boer (1986) was born in Jerusalem. When he was three years old he and his parentsmoved toHolland. Ilay den Boer studied at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. In the season 2008/2009 he started with the series performances The Promised Feast. A series of six personal performances about the meaning of his homeland Israel through the eyes of himself and his family. The series is produced by Het Huis van Bourgondie (Maastricht, NL). With co-producers as detheatermaker (Antwerpen, B), Over het IJ Festival (Amsterdam, NL), Het Lab (Utrecht, NL) and Keesen&co (Arnhem, NL). In the meanwhile the work of Ilay den Boer was received very well in The Netherlands and abroad by press and public.
Furthermore Ilay den Boer is closely concerned by the theatre company Stichting Nieuwe Helden. Ilay den Boer won a lot of awards with his work.

Awards:
-Ilay den Boer won with his performance This is my dad the BNG Nieuwe theatermakers prijs 2011 of 45.000 euro. The bigest  award for young directers in The Netherlands.
-Also the Blind Date public Award 2011 was that year for Ilay den Boer’s This is my dad
-Ilay den Boer won the Charlotte Kohler Prijs 2011. A award for young talent distributed every two years by Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. Allied to the award Ilay den Boer gets 20.000 euro’s.
-This is my dad got selected for Het Theaterfestival Nederland 2010 a festival that portrays the ten best performances of the Dutch and Belgium past theatre season.
-This is my dad also got selected for Blind Date – nieuwe theatermakers on tour, a prize for Dutch young directors / theatre makers.
-By the national Dutch paper De Volkskrant the performance has been chosen in there top 10 best performances in The Netherlands in the season 2009/2010 as 5th.
-Another national Dutch paper NRC Handelsblad made a top 5 best performances in The Netherlands in the year 2010 and the performance ended as 3rd.
-Bon Appetit got selected by the Belgium jury of Het Theaterfestival 2009, a festival that portrays the ten best performances of the Dutch and Belgium past theatre season.
-Ilay den Boer won with his performance Janken en Schieten the Audience Award 2011 of Theaterfestival Karavaan.
-Ilay den Boer have been chosen in december 2010 by the editors of Time Out Amsterdam as one of the city’s 50 most important movers and shakers in culture and the arts.

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