Ellen Blom ID / performing arts consultancy
focuses on international and intercultural exchange in the performing arts.
Please contact me:
if you have questions about touring in The Netherlands
if you are searching for the right Dutch partners to work with
if you want me to see your performance or visit your festival or showcase
to promote international exchange
to develop new partnerships in performing arts
In the past:
From 2001-2010 I have worked as a programmer at Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, one of the bigger theatres in The Netherlands. In that period, I was responsible for more than thirty international tours. In addition, I developed specific productions and festivals with different partners and venues in other cities.
Main activities: 
Since 2013 I coordinate the Dutch theatre network Stichting Raamwerk, with a growing number of interested theatres who like to present international productions in their city. Currently 37 venues have joined the Raamwerk network: 35 in The Netherlands and 2 in Belgium.
Since 2015 Raamwerk took the initiative to book and/or produce for the Dutch network several tours, with companies like the French group Cirque Inextremiste, comedian Trygve Wakenshaw, a tour with the Catalan group Agrupación Señor Serrano, Volker Gerling with his unique production Portraits in Motion, and the Australian circustheatre company Gravity & Other Myths.
Since 2024 Raamwerk also supports some international tours in The Netherlands with extra marketing budget.
Since July 2022 I coordinate Assitej NL, the Dutch part of the global network organisation Assitej International.
Members of Assitej NL are Dutch youth theatre companies, venues, agencies and festivals with the ambition to widen their international horizon and possibilities. Assitej NL consists of 39 members.
Since 2016 I work with the Aurora Nova agency in Berlin as booker (in The Netherlands and Belgium) for the shows of Gravity & Other Myths.
They tour all over the world with several productions. Picture below: Ten Thousand Hours / Darcy Grant. Have a look at the GOM page to see the upcoming tour dates of A Simple Space in The Netherlands and Belgium.
