Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir
Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir is an Icelandic director and playwright based between Edinburgh and Reykjavík. She champions female, non binary, queer and migrant driven narratives and creatives. She is especially keen on experiemental new writing exploring home, violence and becoming.
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 last year's Fringe and Þetta er gjöf at the National Theatre of Iceland last autumn. This fringe Kolbrún directed Hamlet (an experience), provided dramaturgy for Forge, mentoring for Three Marias and producing for Brite Theater.
Kolbrún is a prolific playwright. Her original play This Is a Gift was on at Pitlochry Festival Theatre summer 2025 and in an Icelandic translation at the National Theatre of Iceland autumn 2025 as well as being part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's new Folio, 37 Plays in Stratford. Deliverance by Brite Theater, originally produced by Vanishing Point, toured Scotland and South Korea and returned for a festival run through the Traverse Theatre. Other 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 Coward Conscience Trilogy: Richard III (a one-person show), Hamlet (an experience) and Timonopoly (Brite Theater). Kolbrún was mentored at Playwrights Studio Scotland 2017 by Alan McKendrick and by Zinnie Harris at the Traverse Theatre 2019. She recently developed The Day I Died (supported by Creative Scotland, Imaginate and Pitlochry Festival Theatre) and Endir as a playwright in residence at Borgarleikhúsið (Reykjavík City Theatre).
Kolbrún founded Kolective Theatre to champion new writing by women/non-binary/queer/migrant writers in Edinburgh. Their first festival, which Kolbrún curated and produced, Offspring, ran at Summerhall May 2026 showcasing four new works. Keep your eyes peeled for an announcement of the autumn festival soon.
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 as well as his newest piece, Forge. She has been a script reader for the Traverse Theatre, Royal Court and Tron Theatre. Kolbrún is offering a script reading service.
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 last year's Fringe and Þetta er gjöf at the National Theatre of Iceland last autumn. This fringe Kolbrún directed Hamlet (an experience), provided dramaturgy for Forge, mentoring for Three Marias and producing for Brite Theater.
Kolbrún is a prolific playwright. Her original play This Is a Gift was on at Pitlochry Festival Theatre summer 2025 and in an Icelandic translation at the National Theatre of Iceland autumn 2025 as well as being part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's new Folio, 37 Plays in Stratford. Deliverance by Brite Theater, originally produced by Vanishing Point, toured Scotland and South Korea and returned for a festival run through the Traverse Theatre. Other 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 Coward Conscience Trilogy: Richard III (a one-person show), Hamlet (an experience) and Timonopoly (Brite Theater). Kolbrún was mentored at Playwrights Studio Scotland 2017 by Alan McKendrick and by Zinnie Harris at the Traverse Theatre 2019. She recently developed The Day I Died (supported by Creative Scotland, Imaginate and Pitlochry Festival Theatre) and Endir as a playwright in residence at Borgarleikhúsið (Reykjavík City Theatre).
Kolbrún founded Kolective Theatre to champion new writing by women/non-binary/queer/migrant writers in Edinburgh. Their first festival, which Kolbrún curated and produced, Offspring, ran at Summerhall May 2026 showcasing four new works. Keep your eyes peeled for an announcement of the autumn festival soon.
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 as well as his newest piece, Forge. She has been a script reader for the Traverse Theatre, Royal Court and Tron Theatre. Kolbrún is offering a script reading service.
If you have a project you think Kolbrún would be suitable for please get in touch.
Image credit Kat Gollock
