Jonas Corell Petersen is a Danish 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 in Germany, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Denmark. From 2015 to 2018, he was the resident director at the National Theatre in Oslo. In 2016/17 and 2020/21, he was the resident playwright at Dramatikkens hus in Oslo.
His diploma production, The Sorrows of Young Werther (2010), won the European Fast Forward Award for young directors. In 2012, he received the Hedda Award for Best Youth Production for Eg-Ik-EG-ICH at Det Norske Teatret, Toneelmakerij (Amsterdam), Theater an der Parkaue (Berlin), among others. Schiller’s The Robbers (2014) at Det Norske Teatret and BABY (2013) at the National Theatre were nominated for the Hedda Award for Best Production. He has directed Othello (Staatstheater Braunschweig), The Notebook (2017) at Staatstheater Stuttgart, Così fan tutte (2017) at the Norwegian National Opera, State (with Ingri Fiksdal) at the Steirischer Herbst Festival (2016), as well as extensive tours in Norway and abroad, including in Tbilisi, Chicago, and Cincinnati. He has also staged The Ridiculous Darkness by Wolfram Lotz at Trøndelag Teater (2019), Bartleby by Herman Melville in his own adaptation at Teatret Vårt (2020), KNOCHEN at Staatstheater Cottbus, Winterreise by Elfriede Jelinek at Det Norske Teatret (2021), The Sandman after E.T.A. Hoffmann, adapted by Christian Lollike at Aarhus Teater (2022), Teater Sort/Hvid, and Holstebro Dance Company, and Billy the Kid’s Collected Works by Michael Ondaatje at the National Theatre in 2023.
As a playwright, he has written and had produced Dead Shadows (1999) at Krudttønden, Copenhagen (winner of Forlaget Drama’s youth playwright competition), Zoo at Black Box Teater (2013) and Det Norske Teatret (2015), We Chew on the Bones of Time at the National Theatre (2015), ISLAND at the National Theatre (2017), KNOCHEN at Staatstheater Cottbus (2020), The Lost Community at the National Theatre (2018), Seeking Unity at Kilden (2022), New Land (2022) at Teater Innlandet, and Greatest of All is Love at Trøndelag Teater (2024).
In 2022, Jonas visited Kilden for the first time as a director for the production Seeking Unity. In 2025, he will return to direct The Count of Monte Cristo.