Toril Solvang-Kayiambakis is a playwright, dramaturge, and director. She is known for many adaptations of novels, essays, and graphic novels for the stage. For example, she has worked with works by Vigdis Hjort, Endre Lund Eriksen, Beate Grimsrud, Astrid Lindgren, Olaug Nilssen, Janne Teller, etc. She has received the Heddaprisen award for several theater productions for children and youth, a target audience she is particularly concerned with. As a playwright, she has extensively worked with research in the form of interviews as a basis for her text. Often, she has worked on staging her own texts. She is concerned with class issues, feminism, and what diversity really means, and she often works in a political-poetic language.
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