Rana is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Mo i Rana, which houses the National Library of Norway. Other population centers in Rana include Alterneset, Båsmoen, Dunderland, Eiteråga, Flostrand, Hauknes, Mæla, Myklebustad, Nevernes, Røssvoll, Selfors, Skonseng, Storforshei, Utskarpen, and Ytteren.
Hålogaland Teater is a regional theatre serving the region of Nord-Norge, the northernmost of Norway. When established in 1971, it was the first regional theatre in Norway, and the first professional theatre in Nord-Norge. Many of its productions are staged in the regional Norwegian dialects. Although based in Tromsø in the Arctic Circle, where it occupies a modern purpose-built building, the theatre also tours the surrounding rural areas. The varied schedule includes a mixture of genres, contemporary and classic drama, and musical and children's theatre.
Marit Adeleide Andreassen is a Norwegian actress, born in Svolvær.
Ellen Birgitte Pedersen is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party.
Events in the year 1780 in Norway.
Eirik Aasan Stubø is a Norwegian stage producer and theatre director son of Jazz guitarist Thorgeir Stubø (1943-1986) and Grete Karin Aasan Stubø, and brother of Jazz guitarist Håvard and Jazz singer Kjersti Stubø.
Nils Johnson is a Norwegian actor and theatre director.
Morten Rudå is a Norwegian actor.
Tore Vagn Lid is a Norwegian theatre director, playwright, musician, and artistic director of Transiteatret-Bergen. Tore Vagn Lid holds a professorship in dramaturgy at the National Academy of the Arts (KHIO) in Oslo. He earned a PhD from the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Germany. Central in what is seen as a new political turn in the contemporary Norwegian theater. He has also written numerous articles, especially focusing on the relationship between theater and music, musicdramaturgy and musical strategies for theater directing. In October 2011 Lid published his book on music theatre aesthetics and dramaturgy called "Gegenseitige Verfremdungen - Theater als kritischer Erfahrungsraum im Stoffwechsel zwischen Bühne und Musik".
Morten Borgersen is a Norwegian actor, theatre director, artistic director and writer. He has worked for various theatres, including Trøndelag Teater,Rogaland Teater, Riksteatret, Teatret Vårt, Teater Ibsen, Oslo Nye Teater,Det Norske Teatret, Nationaltheatret, Fjernsynsteatret, Den Nationale Scene, Haugesund teater, Nordland Teater, Kilden teater og Konserthus, Opera Bergen og Maksim Gorkij teater, Vladivostok, Russland( Anna Karenina og Et dukkehjem).]. In 1991 he was appointed as the first theatre director of Teatret Vårt in Molde, after nineteen years of collective management, and had this position until 1997. From 1998 to 2001 he was artistic director of Teater Ibsen. He was artistic director of Den Nationale Scene in Bergen from 2001 to 2008. He published his first novel in 2012: Jeg har arvet en mørk skog. His second novel 2014: Forestillinger. Non-fiction 2015: Våre stemmer.
Silje Holtet is a Norwegian actress and screenwriter.
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen is a Danish actress. She has been nominated for three Robert Awards and one Bodil Award. Born in Hillerød and raised in Birkerød, Sørensen aspired to an acting career after watching the West End production of the musical Chicago while at school. She graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts. Her acting debut was in a minor role in the television series The Eagle in 2005. She followed this by playing Roxie Hart in a Copenhagen production of Chicago, and later on the West End. Sørensen's breakthrough role was as journalist Katrine Fønsmark in the television political drama Borgen (2010–2013).
Jan Fredrik "Janken" Varden is a graduate of The University of Oslo, Law School, stage director and theatre educator. He was born in Oslo. In 1966 he married poet Kate Næss, and from 1989 he lived with Danish actress Birgitte Halling-Koch. He has worked as stage director at Riksteatret - The Norwegian Itinerary Theatre, Nationaltheatret - The National Theatre of Norway, Fjernsynsteatret, - Television Theatre, and many others. He headed the Norwegian National Theatre School 1976-81, He was head of and first director at Oslo Nye Teater from 1989 to 1996. He headed the Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance from 1998 to 2003, and has been decorated Knight of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog as well as Knight of the Norwegian order of Saint Olav.
Aksel-Otto Bull is a Norwegian theatre director.
Jannike Kruse Jåtog is a Norwegian singer, artist and actor. Daughter of Professor and composer Bjørn Howard Kruse and Professor and author Gro Shetelig, sister of Anine and Benedikte Kruse known from the vocal group Pitsj, niece to Philip Antony Kruse and grand child of Colonel Erling Kruse, as well as teacher in music and piano Else Grieg Shetelig.
Teater Ibsen is a theatre in Skien, Norway. The theatre was established in 1975 as Telemark Teater, and changed its name to Teater Ibsen in 1991. The theatre serves as regional theatre for the counties of Telemark and Vestfold. From 1986 to 2010 the theatre played at Festiviteten in Skien, and relocated to a former industrial site at Klosterøya in Skien in 2011. Anders T. Andersen was appointed artistical director from 2010.
Bodvar Drotninghaug Moe is a Norwegian composer, musician (bass) and music teacher.
Hilde Grythe is a Norwegian actress.
