Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir
Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir is an Icelandic director and playwright based in Edinburgh.
Kolbrún was Resident Director at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow spring 2022, directing two shows, Me and My Sister Tell Each Other Everything and hang. She was nominated as Best Director at the 2022 CATS Awards for the former. Other directed works include the multi award winning productions Sandcastles, (Can This Be) Home and Richard III (a one-person show) by Brite Theater, of which Kolbrún is Artistic Director. Her recent freelance credits include ChildMinder (Traverse Theatre), Variant (A Play, A Pie and A Pint) and Maryland (Traverse Theatre). Kolbrún was the founding chair of Theatre Directors Scotland. Kolbrún is directing The Beatles Were a Boyband (F-Bomb) ahead of this year's Fringe.
Her original plays include This Is a Gift, part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's new Folio, 37 Plays, Deliverance by Brite Theater, produced by Vanishing Point, Kit Kat (Breakfast Plays - Traverse Theatre), (Can This Be) Home (Prague Fringe New Territiories Award 2018); Bitter Sweet; Chet Baker, Love and Kjöt (Brite Theater). She has also done several adaptations with Emily Carding such as the multi-award winning Richard III (a one-person show), Hamlet (an experience) and Shakespeare in Hell (Brite Theater). Kolbrún was mentored at Playwrights Studio Scotland 2017 by Alan McKendrick and by Zinnie Harris at the Traverse Theatre 2019. She is currently developing The Day I Died (supported by Creative Scotland), Strangers, The Birds (or Where Exactly), Changes and Troubles of the Female Variety.
Kolbrún is also a dramaturg. She has provided dramaturgy/script development for Between Here and There by Marion Geoffray (Open Space), Charlene and the Machines by Sarah Rose Graber, 44 Sex Acts in One Week by David Finnigan (Traverse Theatre), I'm Not Here by Rachael O'Connor (Traverse Theatre), Tulla by Iain McClure (Manipulate 2019), Notes on Some Persons, Starting to Crack by Gareth Morgan (Northcott Theatre 2013), Traverse Young Writers and many more. Kolbrún is working on The Hearth by Tom Oakes, opening at the Storytelling Centre this coming Fringe. She is a script reader for the Traverse Theatre.
Photo by Mihaela Bodlovic.
Kolbrún was Resident Director at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow spring 2022, directing two shows, Me and My Sister Tell Each Other Everything and hang. She was nominated as Best Director at the 2022 CATS Awards for the former. Other directed works include the multi award winning productions Sandcastles, (Can This Be) Home and Richard III (a one-person show) by Brite Theater, of which Kolbrún is Artistic Director. Her recent freelance credits include ChildMinder (Traverse Theatre), Variant (A Play, A Pie and A Pint) and Maryland (Traverse Theatre). Kolbrún was the founding chair of Theatre Directors Scotland. Kolbrún is directing The Beatles Were a Boyband (F-Bomb) ahead of this year's Fringe.
Her original plays include This Is a Gift, part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's new Folio, 37 Plays, Deliverance by Brite Theater, produced by Vanishing Point, Kit Kat (Breakfast Plays - Traverse Theatre), (Can This Be) Home (Prague Fringe New Territiories Award 2018); Bitter Sweet; Chet Baker, Love and Kjöt (Brite Theater). She has also done several adaptations with Emily Carding such as the multi-award winning Richard III (a one-person show), Hamlet (an experience) and Shakespeare in Hell (Brite Theater). Kolbrún was mentored at Playwrights Studio Scotland 2017 by Alan McKendrick and by Zinnie Harris at the Traverse Theatre 2019. She is currently developing The Day I Died (supported by Creative Scotland), Strangers, The Birds (or Where Exactly), Changes and Troubles of the Female Variety.
Kolbrún is also a dramaturg. She has provided dramaturgy/script development for Between Here and There by Marion Geoffray (Open Space), Charlene and the Machines by Sarah Rose Graber, 44 Sex Acts in One Week by David Finnigan (Traverse Theatre), I'm Not Here by Rachael O'Connor (Traverse Theatre), Tulla by Iain McClure (Manipulate 2019), Notes on Some Persons, Starting to Crack by Gareth Morgan (Northcott Theatre 2013), Traverse Young Writers and many more. Kolbrún is working on The Hearth by Tom Oakes, opening at the Storytelling Centre this coming Fringe. She is a script reader for the Traverse Theatre.
Photo by Mihaela Bodlovic.