Wouter Van Looy is an active participant in the international opera and music-theatre world. His creations have premiered at the Ruhrtriënnale, Staatsoper Berlin, Luzerner Theater, Theaterspektakel Zürich, Musica y Escena in Mexico, Opéra de Lille, Centro Cultural de Bélem, Holland Festival, Bregenzer Festspiele, and elsewhere. He is a director-in-residence and co-artistic director at Muziektheater Transparant.

Wouter Van Looy also founded Zonzo Compagnie and organizes BIG BANG, an adventurous music festival for a young audience that operates in fourteen European cities and, since 2019, also in Ottawa. Wouter Van Looy has won the YAMA Award (2012, 2015 and 2019), the KLARA award (2013), the YEAH Award (2013), the Music Theatre NOW Award (2015) and the EFFE award (2015).