Teater NOR

Teater NOR is a small production company that has worked together in Lofoten in the North of Norway since 1990. The company's aim is to explore the components of stage art, the possibility of putting them together in new ways, and explore the meeting between stage art and other artistic expressions. In this way the company wants to challenge our self-understanding.

The body is in the room as the heart is in the body
– Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Everything is becoming
– Gilles Deleuze

My attitude towards the other is the attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein



Staff


Thorbjørn Gabrielsen

Artistic Director
Thorbjørn Gabrielsen is born and raised in the country two miles outside Oslo. In 1980 he began to study theatre science at the University of Oslo. Receiving a fellowship to study in Krakow and Wroclaw, Poland, he continued education at the Theatre University of Wroclaw in 1984-85 with a concentration on directing. In 1987 he completed his graduate studies and wrote his thesis "Teaterlaboratoriet og Gardzientitze", on two theatre groups seen in relation to the polish tradition and their work with myths and rituals.

In 1988 he was hired by Nordland Fylkeskommune to fulfill the Theatre Plan for Nordland 1988-2000 and settled in Stamsund in the Lofoten Islands. In 1990 he founded Lofoten Teater, first as a theatre education project for young people from North Norway, and from 1993 as an independent professional theatre. In 1996 he established Teater NOR as a project within Lofoten Teater, and in 1998 incorporated it into an independent company. Gabrielsen has directed and written/adapted the text for all of Lofoten Teater's performances through 1996 and all Teater NOR performances.

In addition to Gabrielsen's work with Teater NOR, he has held the position of Artistic Director of Nordland Teater in 1992, established a film company FOT-productions in 1993, and has written and directed several performances throughout Norway


Sissel Helgesen

Actor
Sissel Helgesen was born and raised in Nøtterøy, in the south of Norway, and has worked in theatre since 1983. Helgesen studied acting at the Comedian School in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has worked as an actor, director and instructor with several groups throughout Norway and abroad. She began working with Lofoten Teater in 1993 as an assistant director, before joining the company as a full-time actor and musician in 1996.


Øystein Sanne

Actor
Øystein Sanne comes from Oslo, and has earlier worked with Thorbjørn Gabrielsen og Sissel Helgesen in several productions. He studied at Røros Film- and Theatershop, and was in Bombay, India from 1995 to 1999, studying under Master Sri Ranjit Maharaj. "Mass for Bad Weather" was his first performance for Teater NOR


Mine Nilay Yalcin

Actor
Mine grew up in Tønsberg, and has education as an actor from Nordic Black Express Thratre school and the Commedia school in Copenhagen. Mine has worked as an actor and director since 2003. "Knut is dead" was Mine's first production with Teater NOR, and she has been in all the later Teater NOR productions.


Taro Vestøl Cooper

Actor
Taro grew up in Oslo, and was educated as an actor at Nordic Black Theatre Express Theatre school. Taro has worked as an actor since 1994. "Knut is dead" was Taro's first production with Teater NOR, and he has been in the later productions.


Anita Bjørkli

Light technician



Runar Bruteig Olsen

Sound technician