Jeroen De Man (1980) completed the actors' programme at the Toneelacademie Maastricht in 2005. He has performed with the Noord Nederlands Toneel, Het Zuidelijk Toneel, Artemis and Toneelschuur Producties, among others. He was a part of the artistic core of De Warme Winkel until 2016. There he created, among others, Totaal Thomas (2006), Kokoschka live! (2010) and Stroganoff (2014). De Man also acted in films and series, such as Mees Kees and De ontmaskering van de vastgoedfraude. 

In recent years, De Man has increasingly developed as a director. He directed Als ik de Liefde niet heb by Marjolijn van Heemstra (2014). At Nieuw Amsterdams Peil he directed Anaïs Nin (2010) by Louis Andriessen and Uwe leipe mastdramnis (2016) by Rob Zuidam. He also directed 100 jaar LUXOR (2017). In a four-year trajectory between 2016 and 2020, he worked as in-house director at Het Nationale Theater in The Hague and Toneelgroep Oostpool. There, he directed among others Cinema (2018) by Annie Baker, Ondine (2018) by Jean Giraudoux, Sexual Healing (2019) by Jan Hulst and Kasper Tarenskeen and Skylight (2020) by David Hare. 

De Man is a member of the board of performance collective La Isla Bonita and teaches regularly at the drama schools of Arnhem, Utrecht, Brussels and Maastricht.