Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir
Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir is a director and playwright working in Scotland. She trained at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Theatre Theory and Pracice and at University of Exeter where she got a Masters in Staging Shakespeare. 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. She was supported artist on The Metamorphosis (Vanishing Point), and assistant director of Ulster American (Traverse Theatre, supported by the JMK) and A Number (Royal Lyceum Theatre, supported by FST). Kolbrún is the Mayfesto Resident Director at the Tron Theatre and chair of Theatre Directors Scotland. Her newest piece Deliverance by Brite Theater, produced by Vanishing Point toured Scotland this Spring/Summer 2021 and is about to return to homes this autumn.
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). She has had various works in progress read at the Traverse Theatre, Tron Theatre, Stage to Page, Winter Words Festival and Rep Stripped. Kolbrún was mentored at Playwrights Studio Scotland 2017 by Alan McKendrick and by Zinnie Harris at the Traverse Theatre 2019. She is currently developing Strangers, The Birds (or Where Exactly), Changes and Troubles of the Female Variety.
Kolbrun is also a dramaturg. She has provided dramaturgy for 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.
Photo by Mihaela Bodlovic.
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). She has had various works in progress read at the Traverse Theatre, Tron Theatre, Stage to Page, Winter Words Festival and Rep Stripped. Kolbrún was mentored at Playwrights Studio Scotland 2017 by Alan McKendrick and by Zinnie Harris at the Traverse Theatre 2019. She is currently developing Strangers, The Birds (or Where Exactly), Changes and Troubles of the Female Variety.
Kolbrun is also a dramaturg. She has provided dramaturgy for 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.
Photo by Mihaela Bodlovic.
