Anna Nygren

International Residency 2019 - Anna Nygren

Anna Nygren, born 1990, currently lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. She attended the Biskops-Arnö writing school in Stockholm 2010-2012, earned a MA in literature at Stockholm University 2015 and a MFA in literary composition at Linneaus University 2014. Since 2010 she has been a in-house playwright at Kvartersteatern in Norrköping. She has attended several international exchange programmes arranged by Assitej International – in South Africa, Austria, Serbia and the US. In 2015 her play Råger-Akilles och hennes vänner was played at Barnteaterakademin in Gothenburg. 2018 her two plays Fuck Your Marsvin And Dö and Witch Bitch was staged by Teater Athena in Malmö. The greek translation of her play Jag Dör Om Du Dör, premiered in Athens in 2017.