MORTEN BORGERSEN. Director and writer.
Educated at The Stately Theatre School of Norway as an actor 1978. Working as an actor in around 75 different parts in modern and classical repertoire in most of the theatre companies of Norway. Also in television and film. Artistic director for 15 years from 1991-2007 at Teatret Vårt in Molde, Teater Ibsen in Skien and Den Nationale Scene in Bergen .
Director of around 50 plays since 1986 amongst them:
Victoria by Knut Hamsun and Brothers Lionheart by Astrid LIndgren ( Teatret Vårt) and Twelfth
Night by William Shakespeare ( Teater Ibsen),
The Shame by Bergljot Hobæk Haff and
The Art of Falling by Sara Stridsberg (Nationaltheatret),
The Autumn Sonata by Ingmar Bergman ( Oslo Nye
Teater),
John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen, Himmlers birthday by Thomas Bernhard and Seven days in August by Brit Bildøen ( Det Norske Teatret),
The Three
Sisters by Chekhov and As like in heaven/musical( Nordland teater),
The Sound of Music (Kilden teater), The Knight Bluebeard by Bela Bartok (Opera Bergen)
The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen, Mein Kampf by Georg Tabori, Baal by Bertold Brecht, Hiroshima, mon amour by Marguerite Duras, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Cirkus by Pavel Kohout, Munich -Athen by Lars Noren, The Girl on the sofa by Jon Fosse, and The Lover and Landscape by Harold Pinter, 1900 by Gunnar Staalesen, Angels in Amerivca by Tony Kushner and The Silence by Lars Noren ( Den Nationale Scene),
The Song of the Ruby by Agnar Mykle and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoj/Armin Petras ( Riksteatret) and abroad: Anna Karenin by Tolstoj/Petras and A Dolls House by Ibsen, Maksim Gorkij Theatre, Vladivostok, Russia.
Adaptions of novels and translations for theatre. Writer of two novels: I have inherited a dark wood : 2012. Images: 2014. Writer of three non-fiction books: Triology: Our Voices-edition.