Steinunn Knúts-Önnudóttir

Performance maker (maker, writer, director, performer).

After finishing a BA in theology from University of Iceland Steinunn trained as an actor in Denmark, and studied theatre direction in the UK and Russia.
Steinunn has worked with various theatre groups as director, writer, dramaturge and performer in Denmark, England and Iceland. Steinunn has mainly focused on progressive, cutting edge theatre, crossing the borders between disciplines, participating in many research projects.

Steinunn is the artistic director of The Professional Amateurs and the Webtheatre Room 408 (herbergi408.is, new window). Her work has played in Reykjavik, Copenhagen, New York and Vienna, on the world wide web, on television and in radio among other places.

Steinunn was a dramaturge at the City Theatre in Reykjavik for three years and a part time drama lecturer at Iceland Univesity of the Arts from 2001. She was the Dean of the Department of Performing Arts at IUA 2011 – 2020. Steinunn has published two books about her work in 2010 and 2015.

Steinunn Knuts Önnudottirs forskning

Steinunn Knuts Önnudottir projekt fokuserar på metodutveckling i syfte att utveckla teaterns transformativa potential. I centrum för hennes forskningsplan står en vilja att utveckla teatern som motkraft mot destruktiva, materialistiska tendenser i samhället och som katalysator för omprövning av livsvärden. Projektet syftar till att undersöka möjligheterna att skapa transformerande upplevelser för publiken genom deltagande och omslutande (’immersive’) konstverk i form av en serie diskursiva performances med fokus på hållbarhet och minimalism. Steninunns doktroandprojekt är också en del av Lunds Universitets forskarskola kring Agenda 2030.