Bart Van den Eynde (°1967) has studied medieval history (RUGent & Stendhal II Grenoble) and theatre science (KULeuven). From 1991 to 1995 he was staff member at the Flemish Theatre Institute / VTI, a documentation center on the performing arts. In 1995 he joined the company of Ivo van Hove, Het Zuidelijk Toneel, and became for 5 years the literary manager and production dramaturg of this repertory company based in Eindhoven.
From 2001 to 2007 he was associate artistic director of the youth theatre company Laika in Antwerp. In 2009 he became the artistic & pedagogic director of Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies / a.pass, a postgraduate research program on performance and scenography on and off the stage.
Since 2005 he has been working as a freelance dramaturge for international dance and theatre productions. He has worked with directors (a.o. Ivo van Hove, Guy Cassiers, FC Bergman), choreographers (a.o. Meg Stuart, Arco Renz, Lisbeth Gruwez) and playwrights (a.o. Simon Stephens, Peter Verhelst, Judith Herzberg) in Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Germany, Great-Britain, Austria, Portugal and the United States. He has been a guest teacher at different theatre schools in Belgium and the Netherlands. Since 2015 he is program director of the master theatre at the theatre academy in Maastricht (Netherlands). He is currently a student again and he has obtained a degree as social mediator (KULeuven & KHLeuven) in 2015.