Imagine Nation zoekt Senior Engineer StageAround

Ellen Tissot van Patot is Imagine Nation’s Executive Assistant and has a background in assisting  CEO’s to their daily routine, especially international and creative companies.

After finishing her education at Schoevers “European Secretary” she started her career at Hotel The Grand in Amsterdam as personal assistant for the General Manager. Also responsible for the daily operation at the Hotel for 5 years. She decided to switch to the media entertainment business and became PA for the CCO at 2waytraffic. After 2waytraffic was sold to Sony Pictures Television she followed Kees Abrahams to Imagine Nation after a short period working for SBS Broadcasting.

Harald Bartelds is Imagine Nation’s Financial Controller and has a background in accountancy, financial management and control, especially in creative companies. After 4 years as an accountant he moved to financial management positions in creative companies as records companies, artist Management Companies as well as some event/film producers. Half of 2006 he started his own financial management company, advising fast growing companies on financial control and forecasting. During the past 11 years he also advised several starting companies on financial and administrative setup and coordinated statutory reporting. Harald has been involved in Imagine Nation from day one. Harald has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Economics at the Higher Professional Business Education (HEAO) level with a specialization in accountancy and big data audit.

General Counsel Imagine Nation
Rein Everard started his legal career in 1993 at the leading Dutch law firm Houthoff Buruma, practicing commercial law and corporate law for national and multinational clients.

In 1999 he founded his own in-house consultancy boutique, serving companies like AFC Ajax and Ahold and UPC on various long term projects.

In 2005 he combined forces with Kees Abrahams at 2waytraffic, which got listed at the London Stock Exchange in 2006 and was sold to Sony in 2009. Being a Senior Vice President at Sony Pictures Television until 2012, Rein was responsible for overseeing the handling of all of SPT’s legal functions and matters outside the US territory. Rein joined Imagine Nation as the company’s Chief Legal Officer in 2013. Rein Everard got his Civil Law master degree at the University of Amsterdam and specialized in International Trademark Law at the Grotius Academy.

Lykle Hemminga graduated as bachelor of arts, Creative Engineering for Performing Arts at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. His thesis “Spanning in de buitenlucht” was published in book form by the publisher ITFB. He started his career as freelance light technician and stage manager Dansgroep Krisztina de Châtel, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Dogtroep, Onafhankelijk toneel and De Veenfabriek. In 2006 he started as a technical producer for hollands second biggest musical company V&V Entertainment. He worked at the productions Grease, Fame, Footloose, Hairspray, Legally Blonde, Annie and Spamalot. In 2010 he produced a traveling exhibition about location theater for the Theaterinstituut. As of 2012, Lykle was responsible for the technical production of Daddy Cool Netherlands and Mallorca, Sonneveld, Flashdance, Shrek De Musical, the theater tours of So You Think You Can Dance, and the Koninkrijksconcert to celebrate 200 years of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for Albert Verlinde Entertainment.

For Imagine Nation he started as a technical producer for the play ANNE and the build of Theatre Amsterdam. Since 2014, Lykle is responsible for all technical production at Imagine Nation including the musical Sky and the build of the theatre in Tokyo. Lykle leads the engineering, technical development and project management of StageAround and SceneAround systems around the world.

Over the years Lykle has built an extensive group of professionals around him that he works with usually including but not limited to engineering expertise, steel fabrication expertise, stage management, IT expertise to do with automation of the StageAround system as well as construction as assembly expertise. These professionals form a group which work together.

Head of the UK
Harvey Goldsmith is a legendary and visionary producer and promoter of rock concerts, Charity events and television broadcasts. He has produced, managed and promoted shows with most of the world’s major artists,

including Bob Dylan, Jeff Beck, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Santana, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Luciano Pavarotti, the Bee Gees, Jools Holland, Bocelli, Yusuf Islam, Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Jools Holland, Shirley Bassey, U2, Eric Clapton, Madness, Queen, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Sting, Genesis and Cirque du Soleil; and the Princes’s Trust, Luciano Pavarotti’s Farewell Tour, Live 8, Nokia New Year’s Eve and The Merchants of Bollywood.

In 1978 Harvey Goldsmith promoted the first major global TV event The Concert for Kampuchea at Hammersmith Odeon featuring Paul McCartney, Queen and The Who, which raised over $2 million from worldwide sales to benefit the victims of Pol Pot’s reign of terror in Cambodia and in 1985, Harvey Goldsmith organized the now historic Live Aid concert with Bob Geldof which raised £140 million for famine relief in Ethiopia and became an inspiration for hundreds of similar concert events. In 1996 Goldsmith was honored with a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

Harvey Goldsmith has received numerous awards in recognition for his contribution to the music industry including the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Minister of Culture as well as the 15^th Music Industry Trust’s Awards (MITS), and has been bestowed The British Order of Chivalry. Harvey was the instigator and producer of the Led Zeppelin show in London in December 2007 and in October 2008 Harvey produced ‘Salute Petra’, the official tribute concert to Luciano Pavarotti that was held in Petra, Jordan under the patronage of HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein.

Harvey took over the management of guitarist Jeff Beck in 2008. Harvey is Chairman of the Foundation and Chairman of the Board of The British Music Experience which opened at the O2 Arena in March 2009 and. In September ’09 Harvey produced the Tower Festival in the Tower of London which ran for 10 days.

In April 2010 Harvey was honoured with the International Music Person of The Year for his outstanding contributions to the Music Industry at the MUSEXPO by the City of West Hollywood.

Robin de Levita is a multiple Tony Award-winning and nominated producer best known for creating the internationally acclaimed theatrical performance systems: SceneAround and StageAround. Both are ground breaking staging concepts that incorporate the relationship between the performance and the audience providing a unique and unprecedented theatrical experience.

Robin is co-founder, along with Kees Abrahams, of Imagine Nation, a global media content company focusing on Theater, Live Entertainment, Film and Television.

Robin de Levita produced three feature movies, line produced over a hundred TV shows, produced more than eighty theater productions in seven different countries across Europe and in the US including four hit shows on West End London, and seventeen on Broadway NY. In Europe he produced: The Lion King, Les Miserables, CATS, Miss Saigon, The Phantom of The Opera, Dance of The Vampire, Blue Man Group, Chicago, Sweeney Todd, West Side Story, Cabaret, AIDA and more.  For 5 years he was part of the board of Stage Entertainment overseeing all theatrical productions World Wide.

In 2010 de Levita produced Soldaat van Oranje together with New productions, the first production of its kind in StageAround. In October of this year the show celebrates its 7^th year sold out run. This production broke every record in theater history and is by far the longest running theater production ever in the Netherlands.

In May 2014 he produced critically acclaimed ANNE – a new contemporary play, based on The Diary of Anne Frank. It’s the first authorized stage adaptation since a Broadway production in 1950’s and for the first time in history based on the original writings of Anne Frank.

The play was performing at Theater Amsterdam, specially built (by Imagine Nation) to host a single play. After ANNE, Robin produced SKY, a dramatic musical in 3D.

New York Times: “…Mr. de Levita built the new Theater Amsterdam in eight months.” For the play ANNE he invented a new system that seamlessly integrates 3D visuals, film footages with moveable and rotating stages.

de Levita during his long and successful career has worked with many high profile celebrities including: Ralph Fiennes, Julie Andrews, Raquel Welch, Tina Turner, Liza Minelli, David Bowie and more. Currently Robin is directing the Dear World tour for acclaimed pianist/performer Iris Hond.

In March 2017 Tokyo Broadcasting System Television opened the first Asian StageAround theatre produced and delivered by Imagine Nation. Robin was Executive Producer on the opening show Seven Souls in the Skull Castle.

He is a recipient of the numerous prestigious international awards including Tony Awards for: Titanic (1997, Best Musical), 42nd Street (2001, Best Revival), Into the Woods (2002, Best Revival), Laurence Olivier Award in 1996 for The Who’s Tommy, Outer Critics Circle Award for Victor/Victoria (1995), 42nd Street (2000) and Urinetown (2001) and more. In the Netherlands de Levita established the record of the longest running theatrical production in history named Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange).

Kees Abrahams served as the President of International Production at Sony Pictures Television. He was formerly founder and Chief Executive Officer of 2waytraffic N.V. and was based in its Hilversum headquarters.

Responsible for overseeing 2waytraffic’s extensive portfolio of light entertainment formats, including one of the most successful shows of all time, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and others such as Take It Or Leave It and You Are What You Eat in addition to successful SPT formats such as Dragons’ Den.