Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir
Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir is an Icelandic director and playwright based in Scotland.
Her directed works include the multi award winning productions (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 Maryland (Traverse Theatre) and Happy Ark Day! :) (NTS and BBC). She was supported artist on The Metamorphosis (Vanishing Point), and assistant director of Ulster American (Traverse Theatre, supported by JMK) and A Number (Royal Lyceum Theatre, supported by FST). Kolbrún was the founding chair of Theatre Directors Scotland. 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 Me and My Sister Tell Each Other Everything.
Kolbrún was ART Award recipient, directing Steve McMahon's Sandcastles, produced by Brite Theater for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. She also directed Allan Wilson's Red Alert Cancer! for the same festival. Kolbrún received the Stepping Stones Award '21 (Scottish Arts Club) to develop a new multi-media show Post[traumatic].
Her original plays include 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. Her piece Deliverance by Brite Theater, produced by Vanishing Point, toured Scotland Spring/Summer/Autumn 2021 with support from Creative Scotland before performances in Busan, South Korea in collaboration with the Busan Cultural Foundation.
Kolbrún is also a dramaturg. She has provided dramaturgy/script development for 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), Knots by Theatre Sans Accents (Hidden Door 2018), Notes on Some Persons, Starting to Crack by Gareth Morgan (Northcott Theatre 2013), Traverse Young Writers and many more. She is currently a script reader for the Traverse Theater.
Photo by Mihaela Bodlovic.
Her directed works include the multi award winning productions (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 Maryland (Traverse Theatre) and Happy Ark Day! :) (NTS and BBC). She was supported artist on The Metamorphosis (Vanishing Point), and assistant director of Ulster American (Traverse Theatre, supported by JMK) and A Number (Royal Lyceum Theatre, supported by FST). Kolbrún was the founding chair of Theatre Directors Scotland. 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 Me and My Sister Tell Each Other Everything.
Kolbrún was ART Award recipient, directing Steve McMahon's Sandcastles, produced by Brite Theater for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. She also directed Allan Wilson's Red Alert Cancer! for the same festival. Kolbrún received the Stepping Stones Award '21 (Scottish Arts Club) to develop a new multi-media show Post[traumatic].
Her original plays include 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. Her piece Deliverance by Brite Theater, produced by Vanishing Point, toured Scotland Spring/Summer/Autumn 2021 with support from Creative Scotland before performances in Busan, South Korea in collaboration with the Busan Cultural Foundation.
Kolbrún is also a dramaturg. She has provided dramaturgy/script development for 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), Knots by Theatre Sans Accents (Hidden Door 2018), Notes on Some Persons, Starting to Crack by Gareth Morgan (Northcott Theatre 2013), Traverse Young Writers and many more. She is currently a script reader for the Traverse Theater.
Photo by Mihaela Bodlovic.
