Eirik Aasan Stubø (born 16 June 1965 in

Narvik () is the third-largest List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway, by population. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Narvik (town), town of Narvik. Some of the notable villag ...

, Norway) is a Norwegian stage producer and

theatre director A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors a ...

. He has been director of Rogaland Teater and

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in Norway, and Stockholms Stadsteater and the

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in Sweden. In addition to managing the theatres, he has directed a number of plays, and was awarded the

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in 2007, and the Norwegian Theatre Critics Award and the Hedda Award in 2009.

Personal life

Stubø is the son of jazz guitarist Thorgeir Stubø (1943-1986) and Grete Karin Aasan Stubø (b. 1943), and brother of jazz guitarist Håvard and jazz singer Kjersti Stubø. (in Norwegian)

Career

He was theatre director at the Rogaland Teater from 1997 to 2000, and theatre director at the National Theatre from 2000 to 2008. He received the

for his production of

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's play ''

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'', shown in

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in 2006. from Klassekampen.no (in Norwegian) from

.no (in Norwegian) Besides working as a theater director Stubø has maintained a director career focusing on modern

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. When he leaves the theater, he will work at theatres in Norway, United States, Germany,

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, Sweden and Hungary among others. (in Norwegian) In 2013 to 2014, he was Theatre Manager at the Kulturhuset Stadsteatern. From 2014 he was appointed Theatre Manager of the Swedish

, Dramaten, for the period 2015 to 2019.

Honors

(Off-Broadway Theater Award) for ''Vildanden'' (United States, 2007) the play was put up in

(2006) * Kritikerprisen (Norwegian Critics Award) for Theatre 2009 * Hedda Award for best direction in 2009, for directing

's play '' Rosmersholm'', at Nationaltheatret.

References

External links

Eirik Stubø - Biography

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stubo, Eirik 1965 births Living people Norwegian theatre directors People from Narvik