Victoria Brattström
About Victoria Brattström
Hi, my name is Victoria Brattström I am a Swedish Director and Actor as well as Senior Lecturer in Performance Practices at the University of Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama. My experience as Director ranges from community theatre productions to modern musicals. Over the years I have had the opportunity to be directing large outdoor performances with circus acrobats, choirs and dancers; as well as intimate chamber plays for Swedish Radio and Television.
At the Gothenburg Opera in Sweden I recently directed the musical Kärlek Skonar Ingen (Love Spares No One) opening with a world premier in Sept 2021, and running at the Opera for the season 2021-2022. I was also very happy to be part of the conceptual and creative team behind this original musical theatre piece in co-authorship with, Simon Ljungman, Håkan Hellström & Mirja Unge. Here you can read more about the production and creative process of Kärlek skonar Ingen at:
https://www.opera.se/en/what-s-on/season-2021-2022/karlek-skonar-ingen/
https://gup.ub.gu.se/publication/318867
At the Gothenburg Opera I also directed Musical Story of my life by Lionel Bart (2018) and co-directed in collaboration with Benke Rydman the production Oliver Twist (2019) In the autumn 2016, I directed the Stephen Sondheim musical Passion in its Scandinavian premiere for Smålands Musik & Teater in Jönköping. The production re-opening in spring 2017 at Norrlands Operan and in 2012, the musical Next to Normal at the Wasa Teater in Finland.
Links with more information about these productions and reflections on the artistic work can be found under Publications.
In 2023 I will be graduating with a PhD degree in Performance Practices in an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Academy of Music and Drama and University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-centred Care.
Here you can read more about the research project:
Playing oneself as if another – Acting and directing strategies as practical approaches in person-centred health and care
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Artistic Direction of the musical Love Spares No One, opening Sept 2021 with a world premiere at the Gothenburg Opera, Sweden. (featuring season
21/22)
Victoria Brattström
Göteborg Göteborgsoperan sept 2021 - 2022 -
Konstnärlig Regi/ Artistic Direction of the Musical Oliver! by Lionel Bart, in team with Fredrik Benke Rydman, at The Göteborg
Opera
Victoria Brattström, Fredrik Benke Rydman
The Göteborg Opera, Sweden - 2019 -
»Stopp, frys, vad är det som händer? Hjälp er
kollega!«
Henrik Sjövall, Herman Nilsson-Ehle, Victoria Brattström
Läkartidningen - 2019 -
Stanislavskys Magiska Om som undersöknings- och utvecklingsmetod för nyskriven
musikal
Victoria Brattström, Nina Norblad
Musikalsymposium Kulturhuset Spira 2-3 juni 2018, Musikalplattformen Norden - 2018 -
Regi musikal Mitt Livs Berättelse
(Sverigepremiär)
Victoria Brattström
GöteborgsOperan, 28 oktober 2018 - 2018 -
Playing the Stanislavskian Magic If in organizational change (Performative
lecture)
Victoria Brattström
The Future of Performing Arts: Theatre Expanded, International conference, Performing Arts Centre Vaba Lava (Telliskivi 60a/C1, Tallinn) Estonia, 22-23 May, 2017 - 2017 -
Nyuppsättning av musikteaterverket Passion på Norrlandsoperan
2017
Victoria Brattström
Norrlandsoperan, Umeå Sverige - 2017 -
Exclusion/inclusion in healthcare meetings (oral presentation and art installation at Galleri Monitor Valand) PARSE Conference on Exclusion 2017,
Gothenburg
Victoria Brattström, Helena Dahlberg, Linda Sternö
Parse Conference 2017 - 2017 -
Passion by Stephen
Sondheim
Victoria Brattström
Scandinavian premiere at Smålands Musik och Teater/ SPIRA, Jönköping, Sweden 17 sept 2016 - 2016 -
The Hybrid Artist.
Plenary Session: Making a Living from the Arts, 14th ELIA Biennial Conference in Florence, 2016 (Invited
speaker)
Victoria Brattström
14th ELIA Biennial Conference in Florence, 30 November-3 December 2016 - 2016 -
Playing the ‘Magic If’ A theatre director’s perspective on
intervening
Victoria Brattström
Artistic Interventions in Organizations: Research, Theory and Practice Sköldberg, Ulla Johansson Woodilla, Jill Antal, Ariane Berthoin (online resource) - 2015 -
A Theater Director’s Perspective on Intervening - Presentation and staged reading at "Interventions that Tilt Organizations: Opportunities and Leadership Challenges" panel symposium, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 2015 in Vancouver (Invited
speaker)
Victoria Brattström
75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management held August 7-11, 2015 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. - 2015 -
“- Congrats, this is your Artist in Residence! Presentation at Artful Research Conversation on the Cultural Embeddedness of Artistic interventions in Organizations, WZB Berlin Social Science Research Centre, Dec. 2014
(Invited speaker and panel
member)
Victoria Brattström
Artful Research Conversation on The Cultural Embeddedness of Artistic Interventions in Organizations WZB Berlin Social Science Centre, research unit Cultural Sources of Newness, December 18‐19 2014 - 2014 -
Playing the ‘Magic If’ in organizational intervention, THIRD: SPACE for Learning on Artists and Organizations, International Summer School & Learning Jam at Artlab, Copenhagen, Denmark
(keynote)
Victoria Brattström
THIRD: SPACE for Learning on Artists and Organizations, International Summer School & Learning Jam, 25 –27 of August 2014, Artlab, Copenhagen, Denmark - 2014