The Actors

Niclas Lendemar

Actor

The grand old gentleman of Moomsteatern. Niclas made his debut at Moomsteatern in 1996, in “Grisfarmen” (based on George Orwell's Animal farm). He has played the lead in many performances and in collaboration with Jan-Erik Sääf and Nina C Gyllensköld he made his own solo performance (“Jag Niclas”) in 2013.

Education/experience: Educated in a collaboration between Moomsteatern and Malmö Theatre Academy . Participated in “Studie i kärlek” at Teater Insite in 2017, and in a collaboration between Moomsteatern and Gothenburg City Theatre 2012.

Selected characters at Moomsteatern: Played the leading roles in “Speciells evangelium”, “Bortbytingen” and “Mysteriet Kaspar”. Billy in “Gökboet” and Sven in “Den enfaldige mördaren”.

Therese Kvist

Actress

Therese started her career at Moomsteatern as a student in Moomsteaterns temporary academy (2010 – 2012). She made her debut on stage in “Lilla Asmodeus” 2011. In 2016 and 2018 she travelled all around Skåne with her solo performance “Fix you”. She travelled together with the play´s scriptwriter Mikaela Jarvinger to meet high school students in a project concerning mental health.

Education/experience: Moomsteaterns academy, played the part of Sara in the movie “Fix you”.

Selected characters at Moomsteatern: Esmeralda in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, Caliban in “The Tempest”, the Girl in “Veronica's room”, Kasjtanka in “Kasjtanka, en cirkusdröm", Alice in “Wonderland” and Linnea in "Under the full moon".

Dennis Mortensson

Actor

Dennis started his career at Moomsteatern as a student in Moomsteaterns temporary academy (2010 – 2012). He made his debut on stage in “Lilla Asmodeus” (2011). He was a vital part of the "Tårtan-project", where Moomsteatern collaborated with several theatre groups around Sweden.

Education/experience: Moomsteaterns academy, actor at Teater Pix, participated in “Studie i kärlek” at Teater Insite 2017.

Selected characters at Moomsteatern: Gringoire in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, Ferdinand in “The trip to Melonia”, The Lawyer in “A dream play”, Frasse in “Tårtan” ("The cake") and the ghost Simon in "the Canterville ghost".

Frida Andersson

Actress

Frida started her career at Moomsteaterns temporary academy (2010 – 2012). She made her debut on stage in “Lilla Asmodeus” (2011) and after finishing the academy her first role was in "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" (2013).

Education/experience: Moomsteaterns academy, studied theatre at Vipan special high school.

Selected characters at Moomsteatern: Djali in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, Miranda in “The trip to Melonia” and Ariel in “The Tempest”.

Tryggve Algeus

Actor

Tryggves' first performance at Moomsteatern was in the 2013 production of “One flew over the cuckoo's nest”, when Moomsteatern borrowed some actors from Teater Teamus day care centre. In 2015 he returned to Moomsteatern to do an internship by participating in “The trip to Melonia”. In the fall of 2017 Tryggve was given the opportunity to get a long term practice at Moomsteatern and become a permanent part of our ensemble, and since January 2020 he is fully employed at Moomsteatern.

Education/experience: Actor at Teater Teamus, has participated in a project with Share Music & Performing Arts.

Selected characters at Moomsteatern: William in “The trip to Melonia”, the pig Fedor in “Kasjtanka, en cirkusdröm”, inspector Blom in “Tårtan” and Mona in "Under the full moon".

Johanna Friberg

Actress trainee

Johanna was jolted into the work at Moomsteatern 2018 as a substitute in the show “Tårtan” and remained at the theatre in an internship, in order to gain proper experience and learn all the aspects of the profession. After two years at TeaterAkademin she is now back at Moomsteatern full time, as an actor trainee.

Education/experience: Actor at Teater Pix. Attended TeaterAkademin.

Selected characters at Moomsteatern: Jana in “Tårtan”, Anna in “Den enfaldige mördaren", the queen of hearts in “Wonderland”, the girl in "The Erased" and Zombie-Felicia in "Alla heter Knut".

TeaterAkademin

In January 2021, Moomsteatern and the Disability Care & Support Council in the City of Malmö entered into an IOP agreement, an Idéburet Offentligt Partnerskap (Voluntary sector organisation public partnership). The core of this IOP is that the City of Malmö is initiating a new Activity centre with supported occupation within the LSS (Act Concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain disabilities) framework, catering to seven participants with a focus on theater. This initiative has been named TeaterAkademin (the Theatre Academy). The Disability Support Council in Malmö has opened the facility in a new location geographically close to Moomsteatern, allowing participants to easily move between the two activities. The IOP agreement extends over three years. During the third year, the collaboration will be evaluated, and decisions will be made on whether both parties want to continue cooperating in this form.

Moomsteatern contributes to TeaterAkademin by providing both long-term and short-term planning and activities, in collaboration with the care and theater pedagogue employed by the Disability Support Council. This planning aims to create a fundamental understanding among participants of what the acting profession entails and provides individuals with the opportunity to develop their acting skills.

Establishing a clear structure for collaboration between Moomsteatern and the activity centre TeaterAkademin means that participants have the time they need to develop at their own pace, as the time required for such development varies greatly from individual to individual. An important aspect of the collaboration is to facilitate the recruitment of actors with Learning Disabilities & Autism (LD&A). During their time at TeaterAkademin, participants should have the opportunity to learn what they need to be able to work within the professional performing arts. The long-term goal is for both Moomsteatern and other theaters to turn to TeaterAkademin when seeking actors with LD&A.