Biography

Lars Kaaber is a Danish writer, an award-winning playwright, and a theatre director with sixty-five productions to his credit. His stagings of Shakespeare include Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night and As You Like It. He also directed an international production of Rossini’s opera Othello, and Shakespeare consultant on Dogme film IV, The King is Alive. Lars Kaaber holds an M.A. in English from the University of Copenhagen and lectures on Shakespeare and Elizabethan Theatre. His awards include the Katapult Script Prize in Aarhus, First Prize in The Danish Actors Guild Script Competition and the Dramatist Award of Frederiksborg.