Rebekka Nilsson (b. 1988, NO) is a Norwegian-Danish director who graduated in Theatre Directing at the ATD in Amsterdam in 2019 with two productions: WOEDE by Elfriede Jelinek and HEDDA - een monstertragedie, an idiosyncratic ‘re-translation’ of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Both productions testify to her desire to make theatre about people in relation to today’s social and political reality. Nilsson makes theatre that has a critical, almost activist tone. By means of new or classical repertoire (often radically adapted), Nilsson attempts to investigate what it is to be human in today’s fluid and complex global society characterized by neoliberalism, changing identity, and an ever-impending ecological apocalypse.
