Tore Vagn Lid

Tore Vagn Lid (born 20 April 1973, in Bergen) is a Norwegian theatre director, playwright, musician, Bertolt Brecht enthusiast and artistic director of Transiteatret-Bergen. Tore Vagn Lid holds a professorship in dramaturgy at the National Academy of the Arts (KHIO) in Oslo.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140815052908/http://www.khio.no/Norsk/Nyheter/Arkiv/Teaterhogskolen/Nyansettelser+p%C3%A5+Teaterh%C3%B8gskolen.b7C_xlrQWZ.ips] He earned a PhD from the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Germany (Summa cum laude). Central in what is seen as a new political turn in the contemporary Norwegian theater. He has also written numerous articles, especially focusing on the relationship between theater and music, musicdramaturgy and musical strategies for theater directing. In October 2011 Lid published his book on music theatre aesthetics and dramaturgy called "Gegenseitige Verfremdungen - Theater als kritischer Erfahrungsraum im Stoffwechsel zwischen Bühne und Musik".[http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=58973&concordeid=261174][https://web.archive.org/web/20151001100829/http://lydskrift.no/story/gjensidige-verfremdunger] Provided by Wikipedia