[4] He adapted and directed Mathieu Kassovitz' film La Haine for the stage as HATE, playing the Netherlands and London's Barbican Theatre.
Whereas the Edinburgh Evening News praised its "sensitive direction"[13] and trade paper The Stage wrote of it as "captivating and emotionally supple,",[14] The Chicago Sun-Times called it "a solid piece of acting, but not exactly a revelatory story.
Other work includes the Dutch premiere production of The Mountaintop by Katori Hall,[21] and Duncan Macmillan's Lungs,[22] as well as Simon Stephens' Motortown.
[23] Original Dutch plays in his direction include Waterdragers[24] for Het Zuidelijk Toneel and Ik Weet Van Geen Herinnering for Festival aan de Werf.
[28] In May 2010, while in New York City to direct Omar El-Khairy's play Longitude at the Public Theater, Van Der Sluijs witnessed the failed terrorist attack on Times Square when on his way to a theatre performance on Broadway; his story subsequently appeared on BBC[29] and in Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.