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THE BEDMATE

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JACOB HIRDWALL, born 1967, is a Swedish dramatist, dramaturge, translator and culture journalist. He has also acted in several stage and television productions. He worked as a dramaturge at Göteborgs Stadsteater in Gothenburg in 1994-1996. He directed “The Dumb Waiter” by Harold Pinter at Göteborgs Stadsteater in 1996. He worked as dramaturge at FolkTeatern in Gothenburg in 1997-1999. He has also worked as a dramaturge at Stockholms Stadsteater in Stockholm 1998-2000. He is currently working as dramaturge and dramatist at The Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden and lives in Stockholm. He´s been engaged in over 75 professional productions for film, tv, theatre and radio during his career (2006).
Jacob Hirdwall set up ”The Greenhouse”, a network for newly written Swedish plays - which was funded by the organisation ”Culture of the Future” - in 1999-2000 together with three dramatists. At the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden he started ”The Dramatist´s Group” consisting of eight dramatists. Jacob is also a contributor to the theatre magazine ”Visslingar & Rop” and has also written in many other Swedish magazines.
Jacob Hirdwall has written several stage-plays: ”The Bedmate”, Aarhus Teater, Denmark 2002. ”Self-portraits of Unknown Men”, Swedish Radio 2003. ”Paralysie Gènèrale!” (a play based on texts by Strindberg), The Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden/ The PowerStation 2005. Guest-performences in Beijing and Shanghai in 2005. ”Pleasure Islands – The undiscovered country”, opens at the National Theatre in Reykjavik, Iceland on the 20th of January 2007. A play about genetic research in Iceland. Will be availebly in english translation in early 2007. ”The sparrow of Minsk”, comissioned by The Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden in 2006. The play is set in former White Russia, today known as ”Belaurs” and deals partly with the consequences of the accident in the Tjernobyl powerplant in 1986.

Nordiska APS in Copenhagen, Denmark are agents for Jacob Hirdwall's stage-plays: www.nordiska.dk