It is the duty of an artist to bring light into the hearts of people.
Charlie Mandelbaum
“This feeling of floating on clouds, this elation, this tangible passion, which is so rarely found in the schnitzel-eating, harsh, real world. Words fail me; you simply have to feel it and experience it with gratitude.“
…an audience member said about my work
about me
born in Oslo, Norway – raised in Vienna, Austria
early piano-studies and extensive stage appearences at different school theatres
after taking my high-school diploma: Vienna University of Music and Dramatic Arts – Max Reinhardt Seminar – including City of Vienna University: singing & music studies
engagements at different theatres as actress and singer including Burgtheater Wien and Theater in der Josefstadt
founding and leading a progressive little theatre in Vienna’s Josefstadt – with emphasison comedy and musical theatre, producing original material only
writing book, music and lyrics for all productions
since 2014 member of
Book music & lyrics, BML London
Shriek! – synopsis
A young woman is longingly awaiting the return of her husband who has gone to war. After several years the man returns and she finds out that he is suffering a severe post war trauma. He is withdrawn, inaccessable and highly irascible and becomes so enraged that the young woman gets frightened of him. Whatever she does, nothing helps to change the situation. Living together with him seems an impossibility. In desperation, the young wife finds her way to a healer whom she asks for help. The healer asks her to find a hair from a special kind of bear which is needed for a healing potion. In order to achieve this the woman has to take different hardships, to climb a large mountain and face great dangers. When she finally finds the bear, she manages to get familiar with it, gradually getting closer, allaying its wrath, asking the bear for the hair, which eventually is granted. With the hair she happily returns to the healer, who – to the dismay of the young woman – throws the hair into the fire. The healer tells her to go home. Everything will be good, because now she will know how to deal with her husband.
Idea: “The Crescent Moon Bear” from “WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES” by Clarissa Pinkola-Estes
productions so far…
