Jo Strømgren, born 1970 in Norway, was educated in classical ballet and had some years as a dancer before an injury made him pursue a multi-disciplinary creative career.

As the artistic director of Jo Strømgren Kompani, a theatre company specializing in nonsensical languages, he has surprised audiences and critics worldwide with his peculiar style. The company has performed its mix of gibberish, live music, film, and puppet theatre in 45 countries so far and has achieved numerous prizes.

He is also frequently commissioned with companies like Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet

Cedar Lake is a New York City-based contemporary ballet company dedicated to the continued development of dance by providing choreographers a comprehensive environment for creation as well as curating work for presentation to a worldwide audience...

, Danish Dance Theatre, Carte Blanche Dance Company, Cloud Gate Ensemble, Bern Ballet, Bielefeld Tanztheater, and many others. As a theatre director, he specializes in the plays of Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...

and as playwright he has had about 10 plays produced at different state theatres in Norway. In 2003, Strømgren he directed his first feature film "Destination Moscow", which was played in cinemas in Norway and on several festivals abroad.