Guus van Geffen started working with set and lighting design after he finished his technical training in
advertising in 1978. In the past three decades he has worked on more than a hundred productions for various theater groups, filmmakers, artists, festivals and theater schools. In 1988 he co-founded the
successful theater company de Trust, to which he was committed for almost a decade. Currently, he is
working as an independent set and lighting designer for theater, film and museums, and is a teacher of
design at the School of Arts in Utrecht, Maastricht and Amsterdam.