Kåre Conradi – Alfred Allmers
Kåre Conradi’s awards include Best Actor Award for Ibsen’s Love’s Comedy; Trøndelag Theatre Award for Hamlet and The Continental Award for Stones In His Pockets. Theatre credits include: Over 30 productions at Nationaltheatret including Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Skylight, Fanny and Alexander, Peer Gynt, League of Youth, and The Threepenny Opera. Other theatre includes: The Pretenders (The Royal Theatre of Denmark), The Glass Menagerie, Hamlet, Westside Story (Trøndelag Theatre), Singing In The Rain, My Fair Lady (Oslo New Theatre), and The Little Prince (Lyric Theatre Belfast). TV and Film credits include: Boys Will Be Boys (Emmy nominated); Ibsen Centennial Awards; Wide Blue Yonder;The Philanthropist (NBC series); Arctic Passage: Prisoners of the Ice (ITN); King Curling; The Conqueror (NRK). Jazz concert credits include headline act at Debbie Curtis Radio Big Band concert at the London Palladium.
Pia Tjelta – Rita Allmers
Pia Tjelta studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts/The Academy of Theatre. She made her professional debut as Petra in Fanny and Alexander at Nationaltheatret. Other work at Nationaltheatret includes Flying Lord, The Dynasty (Ad Hoc), Hedda Gabler, Anna Karenina and The Auditor. Other theatre credits include Les Misérables and the title role in Elektra (Oslo New Theatre), Gossip (Rogaland Theatre) and Peer Gynt (Gålå). Film includes: Mongoland, Buddy, An Enemy of the People, The Woman in My Life, Mars & Venus, Angels, 90 minutes and Amnesia. TV series include Hombres, The Code Name Hunter, A Good Number Two and Next Summer.
Ine Jansen – Asta Allmers
Ine Jansen studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts/Academy of Theatre and is now part of the ensemble of Nationaltheatret. A selection of her work at Nationaltheatret includes Suddenly Eternal, The Marriage of Figaro, Lady from the Sea, Quisling, When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town, Shadows, The Exorcist, A Journey to the Christmas Star, Ulrike Maria Stuart, The Seagull, Lord of the Flies, Herr Kolpert, Minus 2, The Metamorphosis, Ronja Robber, Daughter and Helicopter. Radio includes the title role in Miss Detective. TV and film includes: Day and Absolutely Perfect.
John Emil Jørgensrud – Borgheim
John Emil Jørgensrud studied at Oslo National Academy of the Arts/Academy of Theatre and is now part of the ensemble of Nationaltheatret, where a selection of his work includes The Christmas Dinner, Casper and Emma, Our Class, and Don Juan. Other theatre includes An Enemy of the People (Ibsen Theatre). Jørgensrud was a vocalist in the black metal band Inferna and fronts the band Skårbugde as songwriter, composer and vocalist.
Andrine Sæther – The Rat Wife
Andrine Sæther studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts/Academy of Theatre and has been part of the ensemble of Nationaltheatret since 1995. A selection of her include: In The Child, Ghosts, The Architect, Dream in Autumn, Lady from the Sea, Death Variations, The Cherry Orchard, The Guest, House Tyrrant, The Father, Lille Eyolf, The Timeless and Let’s Be. She formed part of the Torshov group from 1998 to 2000. Films include Only Clouds Can Move the Stars, Eve’s Eye, The Messenger, The Amateurs and Blessed Are Those Who Thirst. TV work includes: Blind Goddess, The Berlin Poplars and Mammon. She was nominated for Heddaprisen in 2017 for her role in Let’s Be.
Sebastian Sørlie Lamb – Eyolf
Sebastian is 11 years old and is in the 7th grade at Grav school in Bærum outside Oslo. In his spare time he likes to read and enjoys athletics. He is very fond of animals, especially the family’s Portuguese Water Dog, Ellinor. Sebastian thinks acting is great fun and looks forward to every performance. Little Eyolf in Oslo was Sebastian’s stage debut.
Sofia Jupither – Director
Sofia Jupither’s first production was Visit by Jon Fosse at Helsingborg City Theater (2001). She was responsible for the following productions on assignment at the Nationaltheatret: Sleep, The Glass Menagerie, A Dream Play, The Seagull, Chet Does Not Play Here, Mr. Kolpert, The Flying Child and Little Eyolf. Other productions are: The Girl on the Couch, To Damascus, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, 3.31.93 by Lars Norén at Stockholm City Theater, A Doll’s House, The Summer House, The Lady From the Sea at Dramaten in Stockholm, The Wild Duck at Rogaland Theater and Skalv and Fragment by Lars Norén at Folkteatern in Gothenburg. She produced her first opera in 2013 at the Royal Opera in Stockholm with Salome by Richard Strauss. Since 2015 she has been running Jupither Josephsson Theater Company in Stockholm in partnership with the producer Ulrika Josephsson. In 2016 they were represented at the Theater Festival in Avignon with two performances the same year, The Tiger by Giannina Carbunariu and The 20th of November by Lars Norén. Awards include Heddaprisen (2006) for best direction for Sleep at Nationaltheatret in Oslo and the Thalia Prize 2014 for 3.31.93 at Stockholm City Theater.
Erlend Birkeland – Set Designer
Erlend Birkeland studied visual art at Kunsthåndverkskolen in Kolding, Denmark, the National Academy of Craft and Art Industry Oslo, and the Norwegian National Academy of the Arts. He represented Norway at the Prague Quadrennial with his stage design for Fuglane in 1999 and since that time has created stage design for over a hundred productions across Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Selected stage design for the Nationaltheatret: Shirley Valentine, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Himmelweg (Way to Heaven), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as Et deilig sted, Kjæm æiller att!, En vanlig dag i helvete, Et drømspill, Hustyrannen, deLillos – livet er en liten dings and Peer Gynt. Other selected works: Alice, A Doll’s House, Ivanov, Rampfeber and Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea (Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm); The Coronation of Poppea, and Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk (Norwegian Opera and Ballet); Sommergjester, The Jungle Book, Three Sisters, The Three Musketeers, Mio my Mio and Min Kamp (Stockholm’s Stadsteatern).
Ellen Dæhli Ystehede – Costume Designer
Ellen Dæhli Ystehede has worked as costume designer for a range of theatrical productions, films and TV series. Selected work for Nationaltheatret include: Må, Måken, Et drømspill and Lille Eyolf. Selected other work: Electra, Medea and the Belgrade trilogy (Stockholm’s Stadsteater and Upsala’s Stadsteater). Film includes: Babycall, Sykt lykkelig, Oslo 31.august, Jag etter vind, Blind, Operasjon Arktis and Thelma. TV includes Lilyhammer, Frikjent and Valkyrien.
Magnus Mikaelsen – Costume Designer
Magnus Mikaelsen holds a BA in lighting design from Stockholm’s Dramatic High School (2010-2013). He has been responsible for lighting on a number of productions, including The Decameron, Strategies for A Brighter Future, Lille Eyolf, Osv., Hedda Gabler (Nationaltheatret), The Dead City (Wermland Opera), Petra von Kant’s Bitter Tears (Aalborg Theater), Quartet and Every Day, Every Night (Stockholm City Theater), Dynamic 2 and Ad Undas – Solaris Corrected (The Norwegian Opera & Ballet). Strategies for a Brighter Future won the Oslo Prize for the Performing Arts for 2015.
Ruth Haraldsdottir Norvik – Costume Designer
Ruth Haraldsdottir Norvik started her career at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo, in 1980. She has worked at the Nationaltheatret since 1996, where she has been responsible for over fifty productions, including: Circus, Don Juan – a Nachspiel, Erasmus Montanus, When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town, The Glass Menagerie, The Guest, Blackbird, Three Sisters, The Importance of Being Earnest, Speer, Ghosts, Pippi Longstocking, An Enemy of the People, Carnage, Fanny and Alexander, Ten Lives! – Komilab No. 3, Uncle Vanya, Ronja Robber- Daughter, Demons 2014, Little Eyolf, The Christmas Dinner, Skylight, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Confidential Conversations, The Wild Duck, An Enemy of the People and Don Juan.
Mari Vatne Kjeldstadli – Costume Designer
Mari Vatne Kjeldstadli has worked as a dramaturg at Nationaltheatret since 2010. During that period she has been responsible for several projects including directing Karsten and Petra, Apostles of Nationalism and she was one of the initial group behind Untried. She studied at the University of Oslo and previously worked as a director of the Akershus Teater and Norwegian Drama Festival. Selected performances include: I am the Wind, Rosmersholm, Jåtåkdag, Abigail’s Party, An Enemy of the People, The Dispute, The Flying Child, Baby, About Care, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I am, Little Eyolf, Three Sisters, Constellations, Strategies for a Brighter Future, Motortown, Let Yourself Be and Don Juan.