Åsa Lindholm

About

Åsa Lindholm is a playwright, dramaturg, director and performer. She studied drama at the Drama Institute from 2001 to 2004. She also studied at Lund University and Aarhus University. She has worked as a playwright at Gothenburg City Theater, Uppsala City Theater, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm, and served as artistic director at Teater Tribunalen. . She has worked with the Stockholm and Gothenburg City Theaters, the Unga Klara Theater, the Royal Drama Theater, Folkoperan, Riksteatern, Radioteatern and Östgötateatern, among others. Her plays have been translated into German, Norwegian, English, Romanian, Chinese and Turkish. In 2006, she was awarded the Ikaros Prize for her radio production of “Ett perfekt liv” (“Perfect Life”), and in 2010 she was nominated for the Nordisk Dramatikerpris for her play “Omflickorkundedöda” (“If Girls Could Kill”). In 2017, she received the Henning Mankell Scholarship, and in 2020, the Swedish Ibsen Society Award. In 2019, her play “Snubben lättar på sitt hjärta” (“A guy opens his heart”) was selected for the SPAC Swedish Performing Arts Biennial.