LUC DE WIT

He is a Brussels-based actor, stage director, drama teacher and Feldenkrais practitioner (awareness through movement). He began his career as an actor and gradually moved into directing, focusing particularly on opera. Since 2005 he has worked as a co-director with William Kentridge and frequently revives his productions at international opera houses and theatres including Die Zauberflöte, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, The Nose, Lulu, Wozzeck. In 2010 he co-directed The Nose with William Kentridge at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where the production was revived in 2013. The same production was presented at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the Opéra national de Lyon (2011). In 2018 he collaborated again with William Kentridge on the production The Head & the Load, in which he also performed as an actor. In the summer of 2026 he was associate director for the world premiere of this production of L’Orfeo at Glyndebourne. He teaches at drama and music schools across Europe and has led workshops for actors, singers, stage directors and set designers.