Rennik-Jan Neggers (1993, Helmond, The Netherlands) is an upcoming stage-director in music theatre. Last season he made his main-stage debut in Germany with the production The Apple Tree (Bock) at Stadttheater Bremerhaven and staged Transformations (Susa) at the Dutch National Opera Academy. His next projects include The cunning little Vixen (Janรกฤek, in Dutch) at De Nederlandse Reisopera, La serva Padrona at DNOA and he will lead a workshop at the Dutch National Opera Studio. He studied Regie fรผr Musik- und Sprechtheater, Performative Kรผnsteย with Professor Sebastian Baumgarten at the Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich.
Before pursuing his interest in theatre, he graduated as Master of Science in Cultural Sociology from the University of Amsterdam in 2016. During a stage-directing internship with David Bรถsch at the Dutch National Opera (DNO), he acquired his first theatre experiences in opera. At DNO he then got to know the chief-dramaturg Klaus Bertisch and subsequently worked for him as assistant-dramaturg. Here, he also worked as assistant stage-director for the productionย Juditha Triumphansย staged by Floris Visser. Simultaneously, Rennik-Jan started to focus more on staging his own projects, mainly in music theatre but spoken theatre as well. In the past years he made productions for the Dutch National Touring Opera (Die schรถne Magelone, Brahms), the Dutch National Opera Academy (Transformations, Susa | Un mari ร la porte, Offenbach | Bastien und Bastienne, Mozart), the Delft Chamber Music Festival, the Theaterakademie August Everding (Ariodante,ย Hรคndel | Pierrot Lunaire,ย Schรถnberg | Geschichten, die keine sind,ย Musil) and SALIX kameropera (The Bear, Walton | Non muore mai, Respighi | Le Bal Masquรฉ, Poulenc). SALIX kameropera is theatre group for young opera talents that Rennik-Jan started and of which he is the artistic leader. In august they will celebrate their premiรจre of the composition Over Tijd at the Grachtenfestival. Over the past years he participated in workshops by Andreas Homoki, Ted Huffman, Katie Mitchell and Jan-Philipp Gloger.