BIOGRAPHIES
ROBERT LEPAGE
Writer, designer,
director, performer
Versatile in every form
of theatre craft, Robert
Lepage is equally talented
as a director, playwright,
actor and film director. His
creative and original approach to theatre has
won him international acclaim and shaken
the dogma of classical stage direction to its
foundations, especially through his use of new
technologies.
Among his most noticed work for the stage:
Dragons’ Trilogy (1985), Needles and Opium
(1991), The Far Side of The Moon (2000), The
Andersen Project (2005), Lipsynch (2007), his
solo performance 887 (2015) and his most
recent production Quills (2016); his multimedia
creations: The Image Mill (2008) and The Library
at Night (2015); at the opera: The Damnation of
Faust (1999), The Nightingale and Other short
Fables (2009), Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen
(2010) and L’Amour de loin (2015).
PEDER BJURMAN
Dramaturg
★★★★★
“Touching, intimate, powerful.”
~ THE GUARDIAN
★★★★★
“A masterpiece on so many levels.”
~ THE INDEPENDENT
★★★★★
~ EVENING STANDARD
Peder is a director and
scriptwriter and works in
the field of visual theatre
with his company The
Missing Link based in
Stockholm, Sweden. His
first collaboration with Robert Lepage was in
1994 during A Dreamplay at the Royal Dramatic
Theatre in Stockholm. Bjurman also provided
the original idea for The Far Side of the Moon, cowrote The Andersen Project, and currently works
as dramaturg for the Playing Cards project.