Vanja Hamidi Isacson

Vanja Hamidi Isacson is a Swedish-Finnish playwright and artistic researcher based in Malmö, Sweden. Since 2024, she has been an affiliated guest researcher at Malmö Theatre Academy. In 2022, she completed her doctorate in artistic research at Stockholm University of the Arts with the thesis "The Potential of Multilingualism in Dramatic Works". Her research explores the artistic and theoretical implications of multilingualism in theatre, focusing on its communicative, dramaturgical, political, and emotional dimensions, and draws on her extensive experience as a playwright working across languages and cultural contexts.

Hamidi Isacson co-founded and served as dramaturg for Teater JaLaDa, a multilingual theatre company in Malmö, from 2013 to 2015. Her multilingual plays for children and young audiences have been performed on numerous occasions, and her artistic work often investigates how multiple languages can shape dramaturgy, character, and audience experience. In addition to theatre, she writes operatic librettos and collaborates with composers and performers in interdisciplinary artistic projects.

Alongside her artistic practice, she is active as a teacher and mentor in artistic research and playwriting. She regularly teaches, supervises, and leads workshops and lectures on performing arts, dramatic writing, and multilingual theatre at institutions such as Stockholm University of the Arts and the Theatre Academy at Uniarts Helsinki.

She is currently involved in several artistic research projects at Inter Arts Center (Lund University) that explore multilingual performance practices, polyvocal composition, and new dramaturgical methods for working with multiple languages on stage. Her work investigates how multilingualism can function as an artistic resource in contemporary performing arts.

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