CAST
CAST
CAST
WEEK 1
I Run- https://www.oberonbooks.com/i-run.html
Line Mørkeby- Writer
Line Mørkeby is a renowned Danish playwright. After studying theatre and performance at the University of Copenhagen for four years, she went to the Dramatics programme at Aarhus Theatre, where she finished in 2008. The same year, the Royal Danish Theatre performed her debut pieceMusicalto great success. Her work includes brothers Lionheart, 5ex P O C, Lykkebjørn, Hair On ItandSkambased on the Norwegian hit TV series.
Line Mørkeby is one of Denmark's most groundbreaking and unfiltered playwrights. With her fine balance between the tragic and comic, she has written for a variety of big and small theatres around Denmark and has received several awards for her talent and performances.
Line was nominated for the Playwright of the Year Award at the Reumert Awards with I Run.
Kim Dambæk- Translator
Kim Dambæk is a translator and stage director who has worked extensively for national, regional and private theatres throughout Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Great Britain.
His work includes award-winning translations of plays by leading Nordic playwrights such as Jon Fosse, P. O. Enquist, Astrid Saalbach, Line Knutzon, Thor Bjørn Krebs, Peter Asmussen and Line Mørkeby for, amongst others, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, BBC TV, Royal Shakespeare Company, Young Vic, London, Rough Magic Theatre in Dublin as well as BAM Majestic Theatre, New York.
Kim graduated from the Drama Centre Directing Course in 1980.
WEEK 1
I Run- https://www.oberonbooks.com/i-run.html
Line Mørkeby- Writer
Line Mørkeby is a renowned Danish playwright. After studying theatre and performance at the University of Copenhagen for four years, she went to the Dramatics programme at Aarhus Theatre, where she finished in 2008. The same year, the Royal Danish Theatre performed her debut pieceMusicalto great success. Her work includes brothers Lionheart, 5ex P O C, Lykkebjørn, Hair On ItandSkambased on the Norwegian hit TV series.
Line Mørkeby is one of Denmark's most groundbreaking and unfiltered playwrights. With her fine balance between the tragic and comic, she has written for a variety of big and small theatres around Denmark and has received several awards for her talent and performances.
Line was nominated for the Playwright of the Year Award at the Reumert Awards with I Run.
Kim Dambæk- Translator
Kim Dambæk is a translator and stage director who has worked extensively for national, regional and private theatres throughout Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Great Britain.
His work includes award-winning translations of plays by leading Nordic playwrights such as Jon Fosse, P. O. Enquist, Astrid Saalbach, Line Knutzon, Thor Bjørn Krebs, Peter Asmussen and Line Mørkeby for, amongst others, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, BBC TV, Royal Shakespeare Company, Young Vic, London, Rough Magic Theatre in Dublin as well as BAM Majestic Theatre, New York.
Kim graduated from the Drama Centre Directing Course in 1980.
WEEK 1
I Run- https://www.oberonbooks.com/i-run.html
Line Mørkeby- Writer
Line Mørkeby is a renowned Danish playwright. After studying theatre and performance at the University of Copenhagen for four years, she went to the Dramatics programme at Aarhus Theatre, where she finished in 2008. The same year, the Royal Danish Theatre performed her debut pieceMusicalto great success. Her work includes brothers Lionheart, 5ex P O C, Lykkebjørn, Hair On ItandSkambased on the Norwegian hit TV series.
Line Mørkeby is one of Denmark's most groundbreaking and unfiltered playwrights. With her fine balance between the tragic and comic, she has written for a variety of big and small theatres around Denmark and has received several awards for her talent and performances.
Line was nominated for the Playwright of the Year Award at the Reumert Awards with I Run.
Kim Dambæk- Translator
Kim Dambæk is a translator and stage director who has worked extensively for national, regional and private theatres throughout Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Great Britain.
His work includes award-winning translations of plays by leading Nordic playwrights such as Jon Fosse, P. O. Enquist, Astrid Saalbach, Line Knutzon, Thor Bjørn Krebs, Peter Asmussen and Line Mørkeby for, amongst others, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, BBC TV, Royal Shakespeare Company, Young Vic, London, Rough Magic Theatre in Dublin as well as BAM Majestic Theatre, New York.
Kim graduated from the Drama Centre Directing Course in 1980.
13 October 11:00 - 12:30 BST
ONLINE
Nordic Drama - Why is it here to stay?
A discussion with Nordic festivals, dramaturgs and literary agents on contemporary Nordic drama and performance and its strengths and characteristics. The discussion explored theatre and performance in the Nordic countries today, and how it can enrich the international performing arts scene. We discussed how Nordic festivals, writers and performance makers are making waves, and how artists and theatres in the UK can be inspired by them.
PANEL
Sandra Theresa Buch, dramaturg, Denmark.
Adam J.K Potrykus, Nordic Fringe Network, Sweden.
Sara Israelson, literary agent, Sweden.
Chaired by Cut the Cord's director & producer Camilla Gürtler.
Sandra Theresa Buch - Dramaturg
Sandra works within higher theatre education as dramaturg, workshop leader and lecturer. She trained as a director at RADA and as dramaturge at Copenhagen University. Since 2016 she been head of BA in Play Writing at the Danish National School of Performing Arts. She is currently committee member of The Reumert Prize - the prestigious annual Danish awards ceremony to recognise excellence in theatre achievements in Denmark and part of the creative team of Fizzy Sherbet New Writing an internal platform for women writers.
Adam J.K Potrykus - Co-director, Nordic Fringe Network
Made in Poland. Developed in Sweden. Refined in Australia and the UK. Co-Founder and Co-Director of Stockholm Fringe Festival (STOFF) and the Nordic Fringe Network (NFN). Part of House of Producers (HOP) and Transit Kulturinkubatorn in Stockholm. Have in recent years been engaged in projects with Lumor Teater, Scenkonstgalan, Screendance Festival & Sveriges Television, to name a few.
More info about STOFF: www.stockholmfringe.com
STOFF SoMe: @stoffholm
Sara Israelsson - Literary agent, Colombine
Sara lives in Stockholm, where she works as a freelance dramaturg and a literary agent for Colombine Teaterförlag; one of Scandinavia’s leading theatrical agencies. After graduating from The University of Glasgow with an MLitt (distinction) in Playwriting and Dramaturgy in 2017, Sara moved back to her native Sweden to join the literary department at the Stockholm City Theatre and House of Culture. She has been with Colombine Teaterförlag, where she mainly works with the agency’s international contacts, since 2019.
