Maria Tryti Vennerød (born 1978) is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 playwright

Playwright

A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

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Career

Vennerød's first play, More, was produced at the Norwegian Drama Festival in 2002. Since then she has written about ten plays which have been performed by different theaters and ensembles in Norway and Sweden. In 2005 she received the Ibsen Award

Ibsen Award

The International Ibsen Award honours an individual, institution or organization that has brought new artistic dimensions to the world of drama or theater. The committee consists of senior figures in the international theatre community...

 for the play The Lady at the Counter. Vennerød has directed two of her own plays, the first being Gokk in 2007 and the latter being Heat, a contemporary opera aimed at a younger audience, composed by Julian Skar. In 2010 her play Neverland was produced by Det Norske Teatret

Det Norske Teatret

Det Norske Teatret is a theatre in Oslo. The theatre was founded in 1912, after an initiative from Hulda Garborg and Edvard Drabløs. It opened in 1913, touring with two plays, Ervingen by Ivar Aasen and Rationelt Fjøsstell by Hulda Garborg...

, directed by Jon Tombre.

Plays

• Nasjonal Prøve ["National test"] (2011) - DUS, Det Norske Teatret
• Confession (2011) - Schaubühne, Berlin (part of Writers´project at the F.I.N.D. festival 2011)
• Neverland (2010)- Det Norske Teatret, Oslo
• Kok ["Heat"] (2009) Contemporary opera. Music: Julian Skar. Det Åpne Teater, Oslo
• Gokk (2008) Sogn og Fjordane Teater
  Sogn og Fjordane Teater
  Sogn og Fjordane Teater is a theatre based in Førde, Norway, founded in 1977. It serves as the regional theatre for Sogn og Fjordane, and tours with performances across the county....
  
   and Black Box Teater, Oslo
• Krokodillen ["The Crocodile"] (2006) Teater Ibsen, Skien
  Skien
  ' is a city and municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Skien. Skien is also the administrative centre of Telemark county....
  
  
• Safari (2006) Teater Blendwerk, Oslo
• Testen ["The Test"] (2006) The Norwegian Drama Festival, Oslo
• Frank (2005) Det Norske Teatret, Oslo . Winner of Norwegian-Swedish drama competition
• Dama i Luka ["The Lady at the Counter"] (2004)The Norwegian Drama Festival. The Ibsen Award
• Take Me By the Wings (2003) The Norwegian Drama Festival, and Sogn og Fjordane Teater
• More (2002) The Norwegian Drama Festival, Sogn og Fjordane Teater, Cinnober Theatre in Gothenburg
  Gothenburg
  Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
  
   and more.

Translations

• English
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
  : More, Frank, Neverland, National test
• Swedish
  Swedish language
  Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
  
  : More, Take Me By the Wings
• Danish
  Danish language
  Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...
  
  : Take Me By the Wings
• German
  German language
  German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
  
  : Safari, Neverland, Die Prüfung, Confession
• Portuguese
  Portuguese language
  Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
  
  : Frank
• Hungarian
  Hungarian language
  Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
  
  : Frank
• Italian
  Italian language
  Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
  
  : More
• Romanian
  Romanian language
  Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...
  
  : Frank, Neverland, Safari

Awards

• Norwegian-Swedish Drama Competition on the centennial of Norway's independence 1905-2005 (Frank)
• The Ibsen Award 2005 (The Lady at the Counter)
• 100 og NÅ i 2006 (The Test and Neverland)

External links

• Maria Tryti Vennerød at Nordiska Aps Performing Rights Agency http://www.nordiska.dk/?id=21132&author=9682&show=details
• Maria Tryti Vennerød's homepage www.mariatryti.com
• Writers´ Guild of Norway: http://dramatiker.no/index.php?id=15213
• Marias teatermanus best av alle / http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/article684719.ece
• "Ein siste heilagdom" http://www.nb.no/hamsun2009/hamsuns-liv-og-verk/forfattermoeter/forfattermoeter/maria-tryti-venneroed-ein-siste-heilagdom