Berlin, Berlin, Germany
In the field of Arts and Culture, I create spaces, lead projects, curate and produce events, and facilitate urgent conversations. Critic of international theatre and performance in The Norwegian Shakespeare Journal. #2/2026 (COMING SOON): My interview with the brilliant queer Polish actor Jacek Poniedziałek of the Nowy Teatr in Warsaw. #1/2026: My commentary on Milo Rau's "public trial" project in Hamburg on immigration and the new Right Currently finalizing a memoir project through the lens of Marina Abramović’s art. At Minerva University, a radically innovative global institution, I led a city-based program in Berlin, 2019- 2025, producing large-scale events merging performance, debate and exhibition, and curating panels and workshops with artists and scientists, including "Queer Exile Berlin", "Science of Rave", "Reimagine Democracy!", and "How to Use AI for Public Good". Independent Expert in the 2026 pool of experts for EIT Culture and Creativity. Founder of Podium, a performing arts lab with Black Box Theatre in Oslo. Playwright for The National Theatre (DNS) with the award-winning «Career Constructivisms». Performer, public speaker, and theatre director. Arts and literary critic for Morgenbladet, Klassekampen, NRK P2. Editor of the LGBTQ anthology "Barfot". Polyglot: English, German, Spanish, Italian, and the Scandinavian languages. Fulbright Scholar, MA in Literature: Autofiction and performance art. Teacher of Literature and Performance for students from 90+ countries. International background: Berlin, Pune, Seattle, Minneapolis, Santo Domingo, Copenhagen, Oslo and Tromsø.
I am currently publishing, as a freelance writer, essays, commentaries and reviews on theatre and performance for the Norwegian Shakespeare Journal. I am also working on a book project, a hybrid of memoir and arts essay. It explores a gay man's yearning for home & belonging, seen through the lens of the performance art of Marina Abramovic. In generous support of the project, I have received 30 000 € from Fritt Ord and the Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association.
In my Theatre classes, I taught performance art and the Marina Abramovic method, Pina Bausch and German dance theater, the Japanese Butoh tradition and movement, etc. In my English classes, I taught Jamaica Kincaid, Reinaldo Arenas, the language of visual and performance art, etc. I also coordinated the Peace Stream and held various workshops.
Minerva is a university headquartered in San Francisco, ranked #1 most innovative university in the world 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 by WURI. Minerva aims to reinvent higher education and the students spend each semester in a new city: Seoul, Tokyo, Hyderabad, Berlin, Buenos Aires, London, Taipei. As City Experience Manager and EEM in Berlin, I was responsible for experiential learning: creating programs & events. I produced huge community events with food and performances, and I oversaw the Civic Partner Program which allowed our students to do internships with Berlin-based innovators in various fields. Through workshops, panels, outings, and events, I made sure the students learn as much as possible about Berlin's culture and art scene, history and diversity through immersion and active engagement. A few examples of my most recent Minerva experiences (2025): SCIENCE OF RAVE: we danced to techno music and engaged in a wide range of talks exploring the neuroscience of what goes on with people's bodies and collective consciousness as they dance to the same rhythm; REIMAGINE DEMOCRACY: we engaged with Think Tank Polisphere to understand the stakes of the German 2025 election, followed by a Role-Play Parliamentary Workshop by Apolitical Foundation on the role of young people in shaping the future of democracy; HOW TO USE AI FOR HUMAN INTEREST: we got a glimpse into the latest research on AI & Society, and worked on current ethical challenges with the Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society; QUEER BERLIN STORIES: we explored why Berlin for a century has been a chosen "exile" for queer people, as we were blown away by the creators behind the book & podcast "Bad Gays" and the documentary film "Queer Exile Berlin".
For the Book Magazine I write essays on artists and writers. I have also translated a variety of English language articles for Klassekampen – ranging from politics to literature.
I initiated the LGBTQ anthology, “Barfot”, co-edited with Astrid Urdal, for which we collected personal stories of young gays, lesbians, bisexuals and queer in Scandinavia. As editor and project manager, my job was to bring out the best in every writer. The book was published in 2002, reissued twice, and received a lot of attention from the national media. Subsequently, I have done work in publishing as a Copy Editor, Proofreader, Literary Consultant, and Q&A Facilitator for the most esteemed Norwegian Publishing Houses including Oktober, Samlaget, and Gyldendal.