Lene Therese Teigen
In residence: March 2022
Lene Therese Teigen (b. 1962) is a Norwegian author, playwright and director based in Oslo. She has worked as a writer, director and dramaturge since 1989, mainly in theatre, but also in film, television, radio drama and as an author of fiction. She has broad international experience, both as a director and playwright. Her plays have been produced and performed in Japan, Iceland, South Africa, Canada, Indonesia, Uruguay and Australia, along with the Nordic countries.
She has a MA in theatre studies from University of Bergen, specialising in dramaturgy and directing. She has published four novels and an anthology on drama history in addition to non-fiction and several collections of plays.
Integration of academic research with artistic works is central to her production. As a playwright she creates texts with several equal characters, and her artistic works are marked by a special focus on gender awareness and equality.
From 2009 until July 2015 Teigen was the president of WPI – Women Playwrights International and is now a senior advisor to WPI. She has been a guest lecturer and professor at the drama departments in Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim. Lene Therese Teigen has held positions at the Norwegian Arts Council, the Writers Guild of Norway and at several institutional theatres as well as the National Broadcasting Company of Norway. She is an experienced lecturer and moderator in Norway and abroad. From 2010-2013 she was the project leader for the DESK-project, doing research and performing plays written by female playwrights during the end of 1800.
Her newest play ”Time without books” premiered at the National Theatre in Uruguay, Teatro Solis in Montevideo, on May 9th 2018, was nominated for 5 Florencio prizes and won, among 275 productions, the prize for the best ensemble. It has since been running consequently for 5 seasons at La Escena in Montevideo. The Norwegian premiere was in January 2020, directed by Teigen herself. A documentary about the making of the play is being made in co-production by Guazu Films in Uruguay and Medieoperatørene in Norway, premiering in 2020.