Past Projects
2023
GenanVennerne
A comedy of errors on the theme of sustainability. Two actors meet once again to perform their yearly show in Den Fynske Landsby, but find it’s impossible to keep doing the same old thing in a world that demands a change.
Role: An actor who thinks he can save the world with his art, but in the end must struggle just to save a friendship from his own pedantry.
Produced by: Den Fynske Landsby for Museum Odense
Written by: Malte Joe Frid-Nielsen
Directed by: Jesper Dupont
Dramaturgy: Brian Wind-Hansen
Props and Costumes: Birgitte Nisbeth
Original Compositions by: Harald Haugaard
Set by: Niels Lau Nielsen
With: Anders Cornelius Zoffmann
Voldens Vidner: In English
A podwalk immersing you in the harrowing tale of the seige of Fredericia in 1849. Now available to English-speaking listeners
Role: The narrator who guides you through the haze and uncertainty leading up to and through the clash at the ramparts.
Produced by: Sans-1 for Useeum
Written by: Brian Wind-Hansen
Directed by: Jesper Dupont
2022
Sommerhuset
In a dilapidated summer house above churning waves, two social workers struggle with conflicting values and the explosive temper of the young man in their charge.
Role: Eske, an idealistic social worker and master of his own made-up martial art, who knows all about theory and nothing about practice.
Produced by: Opgang2
Written by: Pia Markussen
Directed by: Pia Markussen
Scenography by : Inge Line Lautrup Holstens and Anders Kjems
Lighting Design by: Anders Kjems
Original Compositions by: Marcus Hjelmborg
With: Stinne Henriksen and Michael Fynne
Drømmeren
When Karen Blixen returns to Denmark, her search for freedom rekindles her dream of becoming an author.
Role: An American journalist come to bring Karen Blixens story to the world
Produced by: Zentropa for Viaplay
Directed by:Jeanette Nordahl
Eventyrenes By: In English
A magical podwalk through the fairytales of Odense.
Roles: A proud statue, a hyperactive mayfly, a cantankerous codger.
Produced by: Sans-1 and H.C. Andersens Hus
Written by: Brian Wind-Hansen
Directed by: Jesper Dupont
Alt. Andet. End. Andersen!
A choose-your-own-adventure book transformed into an interactive theater experience. All of the fairytales Hans Christian Andersen never thought to write.
Role: Christian Anders Hansen, A scientist determined to save a disasterous theatrical experiment.
Produced by: Teater Momentum, H.C. Andersen Festivals, and H.C. Andersens Hus
Written by: Malte Joe Frid-Nielsen
Directed by: Jesper Dupont
Dramaturgy: Henrik Lübker
Scenography: Nikolaj Trap Heiselberg
Props and Costumes: Birgitte Nisbeth
Lighting Design: Casper Lars Døi Andersen
With: Amanda Bøgestrøm Isaksen, Anders Cornelius Zoffmann, Ida Brinch, and a new special guest, every night.
De Forbandede År 2: Opgøret
In this sequel, a family torn apart by the German occupation must confront the consequences of their choices at the end of the Second World War.
Role: Skousen, a factory worker who choses to collaborate with the occupiers.
Produced by: Space Rocket Nation
Directed by: Anders Refn
Sommerdahl
The third season of this popular police procedural.
Role: Karsten Hansen, a father whose dark secrets come to light after his murder.
Produced by: Sequoia for TV2
Directed by: Rumle Hammerich
Unge På Scenekanten
A project in which a group of at-risk youths were brought together to constitute an ensemble and create an original devised work.
Role: The process facilitator, helping the ensemble to determine their rules, design a process, and giving them performative tools to enact their vision.
Assistant: Camila Babette Christensen Raft
With: Ann Christiansen, Annabella Petersen, August-Severin Timm, David Christensen, Dima Stan, Emily Schlüssel, Josefine Søholt Petersen, Marianna Morris, Phillip Kruse, Sayeb Essam, and Shahaf Bendarkar.
2021
2084
A new adaptation of Orwell’s 1984 in a contemporary Scandinavian context. What would it take for our complacent liberal democracies to take an autocratic turn? Could a climate apocalypse change our perception of oppression and freedom in a looming future?
Role: Tommy Parmann, a father terminally proud of his fanatically patriotic daughter.
Produced by: Det Dramatiske Udgangspunt and Teater Katapult
Written by: Eva Littauer
Directed by: Krzysztof Minkowski
Scenography and Costumes: Konrad Schaller
Video and Hologram Design: Lars Egegaard Sørensen
Original Compositions by: Simon Littauer
With: Jonas Littauer, Ludmilla Faber Striim, Marius Bjerre Hansen, and Annika Johannessen (video), Mo Chara (video), Selma Mønsted (video).
English Speakers
An auditory performance that poses the question: What would the English language say if it could tell its own story?
Role: A voice, among many.
Produced by: Moribund and Notam - Norsk center for Teknologi in Music and Art and the Inter Arts Center at Lunds Universitet in Malmø
Written by: Sara Hamming
Directed by: Sara Hamming
Composed by: Anja Jacobsen and Lil Lacy
With: Sue Hansen-Styles, Linda Elvira, Alexandra Jespersen, Emilia Gasiorek, Ragna Solbergnes, David Bateson, Jonathan Bonnichi, Lucy Love, Kristoffer Jessen, Lil Lacy and Anja Jacobsen.
Store Claus og Den Knap Så Store Claus
Two ushers are suddenly thrust into the spotlight when the stars of the show don’t turn up. They retell a classic fairytale as best they can, with a few twists and turns along the way.
Role: Lille Claus, The cleverer of two idiots.
Produced by: Den Fynske Landsby
Written by: Jesper Dupont
Directed by: Jesper Dupont
Scenography: Niels Lau Nielsen
Costumes and Props: Birgitte Nisbeth
Original Music by: Harald Haugaard
With: Anders Cornelius Zoffmann
2020
Madeleine og Drømmene
A surrealist horror on the themes of grief, guilt, and embracing chaos in order to confront the ineffability of loss. Inspired by the story of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Role: Romulus Roma, A father who has lost everything.
Produced by: Kolding Egnsteater
Written by: Jokum Rohde
Directed by: Emil Rostrup
Scenography: Ditte Marie Tygesen
Lighting Design: Jim Falk
Audio Design: Ingvild Njølstad Skandsen
With: Amanda Bøgestrøm Isaksen, Morten Kjær, and Kristine Nørgaard Sørensen
Madklubben (The Food Club)
Three childhood friends, facing lives that seem to be heading toward ‘unhappily ever after’, decide instead to support one another in discovering new beginnings.
Role: Joachim, a son-in-law whose only wish is roast pork instead of sushi on Christmas Eve.
Produced by: Nepenthe Film
Directed by: Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg
Carlo Garn Series
A series of children’s books about the retired magician, Carlo Garn, who just wants a quiet night at home in front of the TV with a gin and tonic, but somehow always ends up on adventures with a wild cast of characters.
Role: Everything from the eponymous Carlo and his (slightly) cannibalistic mummy companion, to foul-mouthed space freaks.
Published by Vild Maskine
Written by Jakob Rask Nielsen
H.C. Hvem? 2020
You’d think the travelling actor would have learned his lesson after 120 tries the previous year. He hasn’t.
Role: A road-worn tragedian who just can’t escape his comedic destiny.
Produced by: Odense Bys Museer and Lise Gerda Knudsen
Written and Directed by: Jesper Dupont
Costumes: Birgitte Nisbeth
Set: Niels Lau Nielsen
Choreography: Peter Friis
With: Anders Cornelius Zoffman
De Forbandede År (Into The Darkness)
The story of a family torn between loyalties and ideologies under the German occupation of Denmark during the Second World War.
Role: Duncan, a British pilot who thought he was only going to attend a pleasant anniversary celebration, when history intervenes.
Produced by: Space Rocket Nation
Directed by: Anders Refn
2019
H.C. Hvem?
An actor tries to perform his heart-wrenching one-man show of The Little Match Girl, but is constantly thwarted as the village around him springs to life with characters from Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales.
Role: A road-worn tragedian who just can’t escape his comedic destiny.
Produced by: Odense Bys Museer and Lise Gerda Knudsen
Written and Directed by: Jesper Dupont
Costumes: Birgitte Nisbeth
Set: Niels Lau Nielsen
Choreography: Peter Friis
With: Stig Reggelsen Skjold and Morten Kjær
Urban Hunt: Now in Danish
This piece was first performed in English at the House of International Theatre in Copenhagen. But it was always my intention of making the play bilingual for its travels around the country. This version first appeared at Mungo Park and is now looking forward to more showings in Jylland and Fyn.
Role: Me, a hopeless city boy trying to purge my own hypocrisy by following in Brendan Kiley’s footsteps, here in Denmark.
Produced by: Down the Rabbit Hole and House of International Theatre
Directed by: Jeremy M. Thomas-Poulsen
Playwright: Malte Joe Frid-Nielsen, Jeremy M. Thomas-Poulsen
Lighting: Paul Damade, Jonathon Perry
Cocka Hola Company: 2019 tour
No corner of Denmark is safe as Desirevolution bring their anarchic hedonism to Jylland and Fyn.
Role: TipTop Diamond, a porn star looking to transcend every boundary of decency.
Produced by: Det Dramatiske Udgangspunkt
Directed by: Krzysztof Minkowski
Playwright: Krzysztof Minkowski, Jonas Littauer
Stage Design by: Konrad Schaller
With: Jonas Littauer, Christine Gaski, and Marius Bjerre Hansen
Hvad kan jeg blive: Five years of touring!
For the 5th year in a row, this show hit the road! It’s a testimony to the show’s enduring relevance that it keeps getting brought back - there will always be a new class of young people trying to figure out how to choose their path in life…
Role: A young man who is acutely aware of the fact that each choice he makes closes as many doors as it opens.
Written and Directed by: Birthe Blåbjerg Jakobsen
Composer: Johannes Eberl Smed
With Birthe Blåbjerg Jakobsen, Nina Maria Birk, and Henrik Holmen
Spis! Eventyrligt
A fantastical meal goes off the rails when the guest of honor fails to show, leaving the audience with a taste of wonder, instead.
Role: A hapless host bamboozled by the spirits of the fairy tale creations he unleashed.
Produced by: Teater Tværsnit, Den Fynske Opera, SPIS Odense Food Festival
Written and Directed by: Jesper Dupont
Set: Niels Lau Nielsen
Lighting: Casper Lars Døi Andersen
Choreography: Fatima Cequeira
With: Charlotte Haugaard and 11 dancers from the Royal Danish Theatre Ballet School, Odense.
2018
Remembrance @ Momentum
For the centennial of Armistice Day, we brought back Remembrance for one night at teater Momentum.
Roles: Various.
Written and Directed by the ensemble, comprised of historical documents.
With Sue Hansen-Styles, Barry McKenna, and Andrew Jeffers
The New Copenhagen Museum
A film for the new museum of Copenhagen’s history, opening in 2019
Role: An young officer who lacks the expected social graces. Additionally, spoken narration for several of the permanent exhibits.
Produced by: Oncotype
Written by: Vivi Lena Andersen
Directed by: Morten Schjødt
Rokoko Motion Capture
A demonstration of Rokoko’s virtual production kit. A new technology with the potential of democratizing motion capture by allowing a motion capture suit to synchronize with a virtual camera and 3D assets.
Role: A knight having trouble with a particularly persistent fly.
Produced by: Rokoko Electronics Aps
Directed by: Jakob Balslev
The Urban Hunt
The Urban Hunt is a Performance/lecture theatre exploration of the connection between food and death seen through the prism of hunting.
Inspired by the Seattle-based journalist, Brendan Kiley’s article of the same name, the piece questions why hunting is natural in the wilderness, but insane when put into the context of the city? Isn’t it the same animal, the same death, the same meat? Is it a question of squeamishness, enlightened morality, alienation from nature, or simply a denial of death itself?
Role: Me, a hopeless city boy trying to purge my own hypocrisy by following in Brendan Kiley’s footsteps.
Produced by: Down the Rabbit Hole and House of International Theatre
Directed by: Jeremy M. Thomas-Poulsen
Playwright: Malte Joe Frid-Nielsen, Jeremy M. Thomas-Poulsen
Lighting: Paul Damade, Jonathon Perry
2017
The Cocka Hola Company
A misanthropic look at Scandinavian decline and excess. Based on the cult novel by Matias Faldbakken
Role: TipTop Diamond, a porn star looking to transcend every boundary of decency.
Produced by: Det Dramatiske Udgangspunkt
Directed by: Krzysztof Minkowski
Playwright: Krzysztof Minkowski, Jonas Littauer
Stage Design by: Konrad Schaller
With: Jonas Littauer, Christine Gaski, Marius Bjerre Hansen
Falling Awake
An avant-garde opera based on a dark fairytale. The story of a father who sacrifices everything for wealth, including his own happiness, his daughter's innocence, and the bonds of trust between them.
Role: A man who buys a girl.
Produced by: Anne Sophie Gertz for Klang Festival
Directed by: Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki
Libretto: Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki
Stage Design by: Jannie Rask de Vitt
With: Morten Grove Frandsen, Sara Fusager, Ellen Kristiansen, Astrid Kjær, and Zhang Xin
Historien Om Danmark
Danish history from the ice age to the present, told in dramatic fashion.
Role: Valdemar Atterdag, Denmark's warrior king, who reclaimed and reunited the land in a brutal campaign of military conquest.
Produced by: DR
Directed by: Mariella Harpelunde Jensen
2016
The Day After
A short film in which two secret service agents weigh their respective loyalties to their convictions and their country in the wake of Donald Trump's election.
Photo by Cameron Jean Laing: www.cargocollective.com/cameronlaing
Role: Jonathan, a gay secret service agent, who struggles with the idea of potentially sacrificing his life for Donald Trump.
Directed by: Shahbaz Sarwar
Written by: Shahbaz Sarwar
Director of Photography: Rasmus Leo
With: Shahbaz Sarwar
Lige Om Lidt Bliver Alting Meget Sjovere: CPH STAGE
The critically acclaimed show made an appearance in Copenhagen, for the CPH STAGE festival. It subsquently won the year's Reumert award for best work of Dance/Performance 2015-16.
Love and Money
A brutal clash between the material and the immaterial forces that dominate modern life. Nominated in the category "Best Foreign Play" by CPH culture 2016.
Role: David, a man driven to extremes by the demands of debt and love.
Produced by: Why Not Theatre?
Directed by: Mia Lipschitz
Playwright: Dennis Kelley
With: Sue Hansen-Styles, Sira Stampe, and Bennet Thorpe
Cocktail
The final production of Teater Momentum's 9.0 season. This play focuses on the perspectives and methods of the abstract film maker, poet, Tour-de-France-commentator, raconteur, bohemian, intellectual, and aristocrat, Jørgen Leth.
Role: A man exploring the nature of being on earth, through methodical poetry.
Produced by: Teater Momentum
Staged by: Jacob Stage
Designed by: Rikke Juellund
Text based on: Jørgen Leth
With: Anete Jensen, Christian Gade Bjerrum and Xenia Noetzelmann
2015
Juleønsket
A television show in the form of an advent calendar. A battle between angels and demons infiltrates a young girl's life at Christmas time, changing everything.
Role: Håkon, a christmas-loving headmaster, confronted with strange goings-on in his school.
Produced by: Cosmo film for TV2
Directed by: Carsten Myllerup
Evigt Solskin
The second production of Teater Momentum's 9.0 season. This visual phantasmagoria focuses on the magical simplicity of film contrasted with the mundane complexity of real world love.
Role: An actor struggling to find authenticity.
Produced by: Teater Momentum
Staged by: Jacob Stage
Designed by: Rikke Juellund
With: Anete Jensen, Christian Gade Bjerrum and Xenia Noetzelmann
Lige Om Lidt Bliver Alting Meget Sjovere
The first production of Teater Momentum's 9.0 season. This hybrid theater piece explores the poetry and music of Lone Hørslev.
Role: A prosopagnosic man yearning for a connection.
Produced by: Teater Momentum
Staged by: Jacob Stage
Text based on: Lone Hørslev
Designed by: Rikke Juellund
With: Anete Jensen, Christian Gade Bjerrum and Xenia Noetzelmann
Rød Kanin, Hvid Kanin
A theatrical experiment by Nassim Soleimanpour, in which an actor is required to perform a text, sight unseen, before a live audience.
Role: An actor, faced with the unknown.
Produced by: Teater Momentum
Text by: Nassim Soleimanpour
Broen
The third season of this acclaimed Danish/Swedish TV series.
Role: A museum docent in a pinch.
Produced by: Filmlance International for DR 1
Directed by: Rumle Hammerich
Tracks of Time
An interactive children's audio book. Perspectives on past and present weave together in a story about dreams, cats, the importance of hula skirts, and love.
Role: Narrator
Written by: Anna Onichimowska
Translated and Adapted by: Mette Sø and Tine Mosegaard
Det Kolde Bord 15: En Tegnefilm, Der Aldrig Skulle Have Set (Søn)Dagens Lys
A short process play created for the premiere Danish 48-hour theater festival. An experimental cartoon about the triumphs and consequences of inebriation.
Role: An animal with a hangover
Playwright: Morten Dahl Lützhøft
Director: Nicolai Egense
Set Design: Kasper Svenstrup Hansen
Lighting Design: Rune Barkholt Spangsbo
With:Kristine Lauritzen, Charlotte Amalie Kirkegaard Kehleth, og Niklas Bentzen
Rita
The third season of this Danish drama series that follows Rita Dinesen, as she seeks to balance the challenges of life as a single mother and public school teacher.
Role: A paramedic responding to a fire at the school.
Produced by: SF Film for TV2
Directed by: Lars Kaalund
Store Danske Videnskabsfolk
A TV- and Web series about historical Danish scientists. In this episode, we follow the life, struggles, and discoveries of Seismologist and Geophysicist, Inge Lehmann.
Role: A sympathetic American scientist, who shares in Inge Lehmann’s success at Lamont Geological Observatory.
Produced by: DR Historie for DR K
Directed by: Kirsten Langkjær Fårup and Frederik Harsløff
Hvad Kan Jeg Blive?
A choose-your-own-adventure long-form forum play. How do we navigate the maze of options, possibilities, and dilemmas which comprise modern life? How does one choose when the stakes are clear, but not the consequences?
Role: A young man who is acutely aware of the fact that each choice he makes closes as many doors as it opens.
Written and Directed by: Birthe Blåbjerg Jakobsen
Composer: Johannes Eberl Smed
Game Design: Jesper Pedersen
With Birthe Blåbjerg Jakobsen, Maria LaCour, and Morten Klode
2014
Dicte
The second season of this Danish detective series about a crime reporter who has a habit of getting too close to her stories.
Role: A Police officer assigned to body guard Dicte, after she has been assaulted by the mob.
Produced by MISO Film for TV2
Directed by Jesper W. Nielsen
Out There
A short sci-fi film. A routine lunar probe spins out of control for an alcoholic space trucker, his trusty navbot, and a science officer on her first voyage.
Role: A navigation robot, whose simple protocols begin a rampant evolution in a mysterious sequence of events.
Produced by: Crows Nest Media (In post-production)
Directed by: Jørgen Krogh
With Dan Schlosser, Durita Dahl Andreassen, and Søren Rossen
Remembrance
A chamber piece for four voices. Poetry, letters, accounts, images and songs from those who lived and died in the First World War.
Roles: Various.
Written and Directed by the ensemble, comprised of historical documents.
With Sue Hansen-Styles, Barry McKenna, and Andrew Jeffers
Warszawa
An ontological filibuster of a show. A Waiting for Godot bromance meets the documentary Hearts of Darkness, meets Chaplin at an unexpected class reunion in a Polish Fawlty Towers. Plus cancer.
Role: An actor at the end of his rope, living through a film shoot from hell in a Warsaw hotel room.
Playwright: Thomas Levin
Director: Per Scheel-Krüger
Set Designers: MAAM - Marianne Nilsson & Anne Mette Drivsholm
Lighting Designer: Egil Barclay Høgenni Hansen
Sound Designer: Emil Assing Høyer
With Jens Sætter-Lassen, Cyron Melville, and Mia Lerdam