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Ivar Thomas van Urk is a Berlin based director for theater and music theater . Van Urk was born in 1967 in Voorburg in The Netherlands. He studied Directing for Professional Theatre in Amsterdam. In 1991 and 1992 he was assistant to Johan Simons. From 1992 until 2000 he was co-artistic leader of the theatre group ‘Het Oranjehotel’. In 1998 he was rewarded with the ‘Perspectief prijs’ for directing. 2000 'till 2009 he directed at Het Nationale Toneel (The National Theater) at Den Haag. Apart from that he directed freelance a lot of other groups, both theater and music theater. In 2009 he made his debut in Germany at Theater Bonn and not much later he moved to Berlin. Since then he is primarily working in Germany. For instance at Görlitz/Zittau and Jena. At this moment he's planning an oper
