Van Der Sluijs has directed for a range of venues and companies in the Netherlands , often directing Dutch language premieres of British and American plays . He directed the first Dutch production of Lorraine Hansberry 's '' A Raisin in the Sun '' , for which production company Well Made Productions won the 2017 Amsterdam Award for the Arts , as well as its response play '' Beneatha 's Place '' by Kwame Kwei-Armah for Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam . Other work includes the Dutch premiere production of The Mountaintop by Katori Hall , and Duncan Macmillan 's '' Lungs '' , , as well as Simon Stephens ' '' Motortown '' . Original Dutch plays in his direction include '' Waterdragers '' for Het Zuidelijk Toneel and '' Ik Weet Van Geen Herinnering '' for Festival aan de Werf . He worked as resident director on '' ANNE '' , a new adaptation of Anne Frank 's Diary of a Young Girl adapted by Leon de Winter and Jessica Durlacher for the purpose-built Theater Amsterdam . Earlier work includes productions at the Royal Theatre in The Hague , the home of the national theatre of the Netherlands , for the Compagnietheater - its temporary Amsterdam venue - and the Rozentheater , formerly Amsterdam 's primary venue for theatre for young audiences . Van der Sluijs has translated American and British plays for Dutch audiences , including '' Driving Miss Daisy '' by Alfred Uhry , The Mountaintop , '' Motortown '' and '' Lungs '' , as well as translating plays to English from Dutch . In a 2012 interview with Dutch daily newspaper Het Parool , Van Der Sluijs characterised the difference between the theatre cultures of The Netherlands and the UK as " In the Netherlands , the director is primary ; in England , it 's the playtext , followed by the actors . " Prior to working as a theatre director , Van Der Sluijs appeared as an actor in the country 's longest-running and highest-rating soap opera Goede Tijden , Slechte Tijden in 2004 . In May 2010 , while in New York City to direct Omar El-Khairy 's play '' Longitude '' at the Public Theater , Van Der Sluijs witnessed the failed terrorist attack on Times Square when on his way to a theatre performance on Broadway ; his story subsequently appeared on BBC and in Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf
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