SAND, HANS JACOB

The Norwegian actor Hans Jakob Sand, from Oslo, has an impressive résumé of rôles from several Norwegian stages. He has been linked with Norway’s National Theatre, Teatret Vårt, Oslo Nye Teater, Trøndelag Theatre, Riksteatret, Rogaland Theatre and Det Norske Teatret. He is now a freelance actor and lives in Gvarv, Telemark. He has appeared in such plays as A Doll’s House, King Lear, Hedda Gabler, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Emperor of Portugallia and Romeo and Juliet. In late November 2007 he gave his last performance of Arsenic and Old Lace at Oslo Nye Teater, followed by Jul i Blåfjäll on the same stage. In 2008 he toured with the monologue Njåls saga.

Hans Jakob Sand is already familiar with productions of Peer Gynt: in 2003 he was in the Norske Blåserensemble concert version of this muchloved classic. Since 2003 he has been running the Poesiorkestret (poetry orchestra) together with three musicians, for which he has produced Mere fjell/More Mountains and Dylan Thomas, The Absolute Poetry. He has also appeared in many Norwegian TV shows and films.

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