Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir has been working as a director since her debut Kjöt (Meat) in 2006. As artistic director of Brite Theater she has directed all of the company's shows as well as taking on production, tech, costumes, set, PR and writing. Kolbrún was awarded the Edwin Rudd Scholarship following her outstanding work at University of Exeter where she did her masters in Staging Shakespeare which enabled her to continue to make work with the company immediately after graduating. Following the company's success with Shakespeare in Hell in 2013 and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in 2014, Brite Theater is continually touring with Richard III (a one-woman show). The show was awarded the Creative Award, Inspiration Award and Performance Award at the Prague Fringe Awards and the Bobby Award at Edinburgh Fringe 2015.
When moving to Scotland after her studies she was one of five directors to be chosen for the Traverse Theatre Director's Cut in December 2014, staging two scenes from Clare Duffy's Arctic Oil. She has since been making work both in her adopted home of Edinburgh and beyond. Recently she was awarded an FST Assistant Director Bursary to assist Zinnie Harris on A Number at the Royal Lyceum Theatre. Zinnie Harris won the CATS award for best director for the show.
Directing credits include Jen McGregor's Creepie Stool, Ben Blow's The Bruce in Ireland, children's play Lykillinn að jólunum (e. The Key to Christmas), Hair, The Musical, Icelandic classic Galdra-Loftur, co-directing and doing dramaturgy for Gareth Morgan's Notes on Some Persons, Starting to Crack.
Her assistant directing credits include Fabien Cloutier's Billy (The Days of Howling) at Oran Mor and Traverse Theatre, Sarah Kane's Rústað (Blasted) at Reykjavík City Theater and Ibsen's Frun från havet (The Lady from the Sea) at Göteborgs Stadsteater.
Following the success of Richard III (a one-woman show) Kolbrún and Emily are developing a new adaptation of Hamlet called Hamlet (an experience), in association with Sweet Venues. You can catch previews at Brighton Fringe and Prague Fringe ahead of the Edinburgh Fringe.
Kolbrún's other new show in development (Can This Be) Home, most recently seen at the Traverse Theatre as part of Hothouse will also be at Prague Fringe.
Kolbrún is also a budding playwright. Her original plays include Kjöt; Bitter Sweet; Chet Baker, Love; My Only Love Sprung from My Only Hate and Shakespeare in Hell, with many more in the works. Her piece Troubles of the Female Variety was recently chosen as part of the Traverse Theatre's Words Words Words. Kolbrún was chosen as one of six playwrights to be mentored at the Playwrights' Studio Scotland to develop the piece under Alan McKendrick's guidance. Since she has had her work staged at the Tron Theatre, Stage to Page and by In Motion Theatre Company,
Kolbrún performs from time to time, most recently in Chet Baker, Love, Coriolanus and (Can This Be) Home, currently in development. She has dabbled in music, written for various mediums and she is also a teacher and has taught at Icelandic Academy of the Arts, MGA Academy of Performing Arts, Mosfellsbær College and Anuban Singburi Kindergarten as well as various seminars and after-school classes. She is one of the associate artists of youth theatre group Annexe Repertory Theatre (A.R.T) and she runs a group and website for theatre directors in Scotland.
Kolbrún is currently based in Edinburgh but has worked in Iceland, Sweden, Thailand and the UK and her work has toured in the US, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Italy with dates in Pakistan and Slovakia on the horizon. You can contact her here.
When moving to Scotland after her studies she was one of five directors to be chosen for the Traverse Theatre Director's Cut in December 2014, staging two scenes from Clare Duffy's Arctic Oil. She has since been making work both in her adopted home of Edinburgh and beyond. Recently she was awarded an FST Assistant Director Bursary to assist Zinnie Harris on A Number at the Royal Lyceum Theatre. Zinnie Harris won the CATS award for best director for the show.
Directing credits include Jen McGregor's Creepie Stool, Ben Blow's The Bruce in Ireland, children's play Lykillinn að jólunum (e. The Key to Christmas), Hair, The Musical, Icelandic classic Galdra-Loftur, co-directing and doing dramaturgy for Gareth Morgan's Notes on Some Persons, Starting to Crack.
Her assistant directing credits include Fabien Cloutier's Billy (The Days of Howling) at Oran Mor and Traverse Theatre, Sarah Kane's Rústað (Blasted) at Reykjavík City Theater and Ibsen's Frun från havet (The Lady from the Sea) at Göteborgs Stadsteater.
Following the success of Richard III (a one-woman show) Kolbrún and Emily are developing a new adaptation of Hamlet called Hamlet (an experience), in association with Sweet Venues. You can catch previews at Brighton Fringe and Prague Fringe ahead of the Edinburgh Fringe.
Kolbrún's other new show in development (Can This Be) Home, most recently seen at the Traverse Theatre as part of Hothouse will also be at Prague Fringe.
Kolbrún is also a budding playwright. Her original plays include Kjöt; Bitter Sweet; Chet Baker, Love; My Only Love Sprung from My Only Hate and Shakespeare in Hell, with many more in the works. Her piece Troubles of the Female Variety was recently chosen as part of the Traverse Theatre's Words Words Words. Kolbrún was chosen as one of six playwrights to be mentored at the Playwrights' Studio Scotland to develop the piece under Alan McKendrick's guidance. Since she has had her work staged at the Tron Theatre, Stage to Page and by In Motion Theatre Company,
Kolbrún performs from time to time, most recently in Chet Baker, Love, Coriolanus and (Can This Be) Home, currently in development. She has dabbled in music, written for various mediums and she is also a teacher and has taught at Icelandic Academy of the Arts, MGA Academy of Performing Arts, Mosfellsbær College and Anuban Singburi Kindergarten as well as various seminars and after-school classes. She is one of the associate artists of youth theatre group Annexe Repertory Theatre (A.R.T) and she runs a group and website for theatre directors in Scotland.
Kolbrún is currently based in Edinburgh but has worked in Iceland, Sweden, Thailand and the UK and her work has toured in the US, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Italy with dates in Pakistan and Slovakia on the horizon. You can contact her here.
