Saga Gärde is a freelance director working across performing arts, film, and documentary. She is trained in documentary filmmaking at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, and her master’s degree at the Theatre Academy in Malmö is grounded in the concept of composed theatre. She has worked with institutions such as Backa Theatre and Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, and created site-specific works for Malmö Konsthall and the Drottningholm Court Theatre. Since 2019, she has promoted new drama as the initiator of Amfi, a platform for new dramatic writing. In autumn 2025, the play anthology Det är ett jag som talar was released by Faethon Press, featuring three plays previously staged by Amfi. Her last major production The Archive of Forgetting (2023) at Malmö Konsthall, with libretto by Athena Farrokhzad and Felicia Mulinari and an oratorio by Tebogo Monnakgotla, was described by Aftonbladet as “a poetic and musical sensation.”

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Uma Feed is an interdisciplinary performing artist and actor, as well as an active public debater on international adoption issues. Uma Feed recently received the Zola Prize in recognition of her civil courage and her many years of criticism of Norwegian transnational adoption. She is currently working on a documentary that depicts her reunion with her biological family and the consequences of this encounter for her identity. She is also featuring in the performance SLÅSS by Basch/Mohn, which had its world premiere in autumn 2025 at the Fjaler Theatre Festival (NO). Recently, Uma has been granted legal aid and will become the first adoptee in Norway to sue the state for human trafficking.

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Sunniva Vikør Egenes is a dancer trained at Stockholm University of the Arts, where she completed the master’s program New Performative Practices (2019–2021), following earlier studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London (2007–2010). She has worked extensively in the independent dance field, collaborating with choreographers such as Rosalind Crisp (AU), Martin Nachbar (DE), Hana Erdman (USA/SE), and Anne-Mareike Hess (DE/LUX). Improvisation is central to her artistic practice and has also led her to explore writing and her role as a choreographer. From 2021 to 2024, Sunniva curated the Ravnedans Festival in southern Norway. Previously based in Stockholm and Berlin, she has been based in Oslo since 2024.

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Daniel Jeremiah Persson is a Swedish-Korean dancer and choreographer based in Malmö, Sweden. As a dancer, he has appeared in works by choreographers such as ddanddarakim, MYKA, Khamlane Halsackda, Hagar Malin Hellkvist Sellén, Maria Naidu, Bobbi Lo Produktion, AdeY, Body Cartography, Joan Jonas, and Gracefool Collective. Daniel is also one of the five leading choreographers in the platform Nya Rörelsen – Choreographers in Skåne. In his artistic practice, Daniel examines discourses surrounding queer, intercultural, and adoption identities, as well as sociopolitical issues, which he explores through choreographic and performance works. In 2024, he received the Swedbank Owners’ Foundation Skåne Cultural Scholarship in the category of Dance. His most recent work, TILLGIVENHETEN/Hyo (효), takes its point of departure from the South Korean Confucian concept of “hyo” (효), which refers to filial devotion and respect toward one’s parents and ancestors, and was performed in spring 2025 at Inkonst (SE).

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Solvej Kyung-Sook Christiansen Solvej Kyung-Sook Christiansen (b. 1977) graduated from the Acting Programme at Odense Theatre in 2006. Based in Copenhagen, she works as a freelance actor across Denmark and is frequently cast in film and television. She has appeared in productions such as The Legacy (Arvtagarna), Ditte & Louise, A Day Will Come (Ingen kender dagen), and Liberty (Frihed). She is also the artistic director of Teater Stuk, which she co-runs with Kathrine Høj Andersen. Solvej will participate on video in the performance.

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Lee Langvad is an award-winning author. Born in Seoul in 1983 and raised in Denmark, Lee graduated from the Danish Authors’ School in 2003. He made his literary debut in 2006 with a collection of conceptual texts titled Find Holger Danske. The collection cast an ironic and humorous light on what it means to be Danish as a Korean adoptee, while also criticizing the clichés that often surround international adoption. The collection met critical acclaim, and he was awarded Denmark’s most prestigious debut prize, the Bodil and Jørgen Munch-Christensen Debut Prize. From 2007–2010, he lived in Seoul, where he sought contact with both his birth family and place of birth. Since publishing She Is Angry (Hun er vred), he has been an outspoken critic in the Danish adoption debate. In autumn 2025, Tolk and Hon er vred were released in Swedish by Ellerströms Publishing.

*Lee Langvad has previously presented himself as Maja Lee Langvad.

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Idun Vik works as a dramaturg, curator, editor, producer, and performing artist. She is the founder and artistic director of Cornerstone and the Bergen Dramatic Writing Festival, and serves as an advisor for artistic development at Den Nationale Scene. Through Cornerstone, she has organized more than 250 events, ranging from readings to large-scale productions, in addition to development projects, national and international collaborations, and Cornerstone Press, which publishes new dramatic writing in connection with the Bergen Dramatic Writing Festival. As a dramaturg, she has worked on around twenty productions at Den Nationale Scene since 2021.

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