Melanie Mederlind

Melanie Mederlind is a Swedish director, formerly an actress.

Melanie Mederlind was educated at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts (SADA), graduating in 2004. She had already, in the early 1990es, gone through education as an actress in Portugal, and for three years she was employed as an actress at Teatro Nacional in Lisbon and Teatro da Cornucópia.

Next she returned to Sweden, and in 1999 and 2000 she worked as a dramaturge and a director's assistant at Malmö City Theatre, where she directed her first play by Elfriede Jelinek, The Farewell AKA Goodbye.

For Swedish Riksteatern her direction credits include Elfriede Jelinek's In The Alps and Sarah Kane's 4:48 Psychosis, the latter of which also visited The Norwegian Touring Theatre and The Contemporary Stage Festival (2005). She has staged other German-language playwrights as well, including Peter Handke's Self-Accusation, and Jail Bait by Franz Xaver Kroetz was her diploma assignment.

She also has translated plays by Strindberg, Dagerman and Norén into Portuguese, and in 2004 she received a cultural grant from the Skåne region.

Melanie Mederlind was nominated for The Hedda Award 2008 in the category of best direction for Ulrike Maria Stuart by Elfriede Jelinek, The National Theatre.

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The Hedda Award