The author of Boys in zinc, Marius Ivaskevicius will have a conversation together with actor and artistic director  Harald Thomson Rosenstrøm.

Harald Thompson Rosenstrøm trained as an actor at the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia, under the direction of Kirill Serebrennikov. He was an actor in Moscow Art Theatre’s 7th studio and acted on the avant-garde stage Gogol Centre in Moscow and Moscow Art Theatre. He has since worked as an actor at theatres in France, Estonia, Kosovo and Norway, and played on stages all across Europe.

Harald also holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and leadership, a master’s degree in screenwriting, has been the principal of the theatre school Solbakken folkehøgskole, artistic director and curator of the theatre Vabalava in Estonia, and has taught theatre and film in Norway and abroad. He is the newly announced artistic director at The National Theatre of the Faroe Islands.

Marius Ivaškevičius is a prose writer, playwright, and film director. His novels have been published in Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Russia, and Latvia. Plays have been staged in Lithuania, Russia, Italy, France, Poland, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, New Zealand, Czech Republic, and Romania by directors Kirill Serebrennikov, Oskaras Korshunovas, Rimas Tuminas, Mindaugas Karbauskis, Arpad Shilling, Aleksandar Popovski, and others. Four plays received the Best Lithuanian Play award, and one the “Golden Mask” award as the best play in Russia (2017).