Floriaan Ganzevoort

Floriaan Ganzevoort is a lighting designer for theatre, music, dance, and spaces of all kinds. He graduated in Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam on the subject ‘Light as a dramaturgical means’. Since 2000, he has designed lighting for various companies. As a result of his dramaturgical background, the light he designs is always strongly connected to the content of the piece. He specializes in the sequence of light images and the timing thereof.

In 2008, Floriaan founded the Theatermachine. This partnership provides an environment in which light is treated in an analytical way and in which light is seen as an important carrier of meaning within the whole of a project. These are not just theatre projects; the work extends to music, public space, architecture, as well as light as an independent art form.

As a lighting designer and scenographer Floriaan worked with: Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Opéra National du Rhin, Lisaboa Houbrechts, Theater Basel, Michel van der Aa, Saskia Boddeke & Peter Greenaway, Swarovski, STRAAT Museum and many others.

Floriaan joined Shobana Jeyasingh on two earlier creations: ‘Material Men – Redux’ and ‘Until the Lions’.

In 2011 Floriaan was awarded together with Rieks Swarte, Jacq. van Eeden en Carly Everaert the TIN Wijnberg Scenografieprijs (the Scenography prize of the Dutch National Theatre Institution) for his light design of ‘The Tempest’ (‘De Storm’).

Selected projects:

• ‘Winter’ (Jon Fosse) Theatre, Det Norkse Teatret, Oslo (2025)
• ‘Schuldig Kind’ Theatre, Het Nationale Theater, The Hague (2025) – nominated for Best Performance in the Dutch Theatre Festival 2025
•  ‘Yerma’ (Llorca) Theatre, Dramaten, Sweden (2024)
•  ‘Disintegration Loops’ Music/Live Broadcast, Holland Festival (2023)
•  ‘Until the Lions’ (Pécou) Opera, Opéra National du Rhin (2022)
• ‘The Fairy Queen – Ein Sommernachtstraum’ (Purcell) Opera, Theater Erfurt (2019)
• ‘Disappearance’ Dance, Ballet de Marseille/ICK Amsterdam (2019)
• Jury selection ‘Make a Splash’ independent light-art work at Amsterdam Light Festival (2017)
• Light design and scenography for ‘Homo Instrumentalis’ Music Theatre, Silbersee/Ruhrtriennale, Germany (2017)
• Light design for ‘Giovanna d’Arco’ (Verdi). Opera in Teatro Regio Parma, Italy (2016)
• Light design for ‘Obedience’. Exhibition in the Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany for Saskia Boddeke and Peter Greenaway (2015)
• Light design for ‘Crystal Cloud’ and Park extension in Swarovski Crystal World in Wattens, Austria for CAO| Perrot Studio (2015)

www.theatermachine.nl/floriaan-ganzevoort

Photo by Anouk van Schie