Lisbeth Lynghøft

Lisbeth Lynghøft was born in 1962. She trained as an actress at the HB studio in New York and Cantabile 2 in Copenhagen. She has appeared in a large number of productions - in one house or on tour - mainly in Sweden, where she also lived for several years. On her return to Copenhagen she started Teatret Bag Døren, and spent five years with this ensemble as artistic leader and director. Teatret Bag Døren had its home at the Københavneren, where Lisbeth Lynghøft had plenty of opportunities to explore and test drama in all its forms. A highly characteristic feature of Teatret Bag Døren productions was the physical idiom, often expressed in very radical, innovative ways. Working with another group, the ensemble was responsible for two festivals - the H.C. Branner Festival and the Mann Festival; at the former they performed The Horseman, and at the Mann Festival Teatret Bag Døren mounted Heinrich Mann's "The Blue Angel" and Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice". Other important Teatret Bag Døren productions included Arthur Kopit's "Wings", "A smile in the grave" about Emily Dickinson and "Passion Propeller"; the two latter also written by Lisbeth Lynghøft. While at Teatret Bag Døren she also worked as a director and instructor at Den Nordiske Teaterhøjskole in Gothenburg, Sweden. After a year at the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Lisbeth Lynghøft's graduation film, "Little Demons", was shown on national television, and since then she has worked at MTV-production as a director and scriptwriter, on free-lance stage- and video jobs, and as a photographer/cinematographer. Lisbeth Lynghøft's first feature film was the erotic thriller "Pink Prison", produced by Zentropa in Denmark.