Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir
Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir is an Icelandic director and playwright based between Edinburgh and Reykjavík.
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 The Beatles Were a Boyband (F-Bomb). Kolbrún was the founding chair of Theatre Directors Scotland. Kolbrún directed Timonopoly for this year's Fringe and Þetta er gjöf at the Icelandic National Theatre this autumn.
Her original plays include This Is a Gift, on at Pitlochry Festival Theatre summer 2025, part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's new Folio, 37 Plays, Deliverance by Brite Theater, originally produced by Vanishing Point, on for the festival through the Traverse Theatre, 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). Their newest creation, Timonopoly, had its world premiere this summer. 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) and Endir as a playwright in residence at Borgarleikhúsið (Reykjavík City Theatre).
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 provided dramaturgy for The Hearth by Tom Oakes, nominated as best Original Work at the Scottish Trad Awards. She has been a script reader for the Traverse Theatre, Royal Court and Tron Theatre.
If you have a project you think Kolbrún would be suitable for please get in touch.
Image credit Kat Gollock
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 The Beatles Were a Boyband (F-Bomb). Kolbrún was the founding chair of Theatre Directors Scotland. Kolbrún directed Timonopoly for this year's Fringe and Þetta er gjöf at the Icelandic National Theatre this autumn.
Her original plays include This Is a Gift, on at Pitlochry Festival Theatre summer 2025, part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's new Folio, 37 Plays, Deliverance by Brite Theater, originally produced by Vanishing Point, on for the festival through the Traverse Theatre, 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). Their newest creation, Timonopoly, had its world premiere this summer. 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) and Endir as a playwright in residence at Borgarleikhúsið (Reykjavík City Theatre).
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 provided dramaturgy for The Hearth by Tom Oakes, nominated as best Original Work at the Scottish Trad Awards. She has been a script reader for the Traverse Theatre, Royal Court and Tron Theatre.
If you have a project you think Kolbrún would be suitable for please get in touch.
Image credit Kat Gollock