Jonas Corell Petersen is a Danish artist, director and playwright based in Norway. He holds a Master’s degree in directing from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Department of Theatre (2010). His productions have been performed extensively in state theaters and festivals in Norway and in Germany, England, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark. Among those are Staatstheater Stuttgart, Staatstheater Cottbus, Toneelmakerij, Århus Theater, Nottingham Playhouse, Theater an der Parkaue, Museum of contemporary art Chicago.
From 2015 to 2018, he was the resident director at the National Theatre in Oslo. He has created a number of performances under the umbrella “Working title: Missing community”. He was the resident playwright at the National Center for New Writing in Oslo for four years. A thread through his work is perspectives on deep history and the relation between human and nature. It includes new texts and performances dealing with the paradoxes of wanting to be part of a community and the reluctance to have any type of community interfere with personal freedom.
Jonas is interested in the “live” aspect of performances and different strategies to enhance this. His performances are characterized by collective work with a strong presence. He has worked extensively with music in a variety of genres and collaborated with a variety of performers – dancers, actors and groups of children and retirees.
Jonas won the European Fast Forward award for young directors (2012), the Norwegian Hedda award for best youth performance (2014) and has been nominated a number of times for the Hedda award with different performances.
Jonas and Ingri’s last collaboration was the performance “State” which premiered at Steirischer Herbst festival, Graz, 2016. It has toured extensively until 2021.