ACT: New Nordic Voices

ACT: New Nordic Voices ACT is Denmark’s Transnational Theatre Company, where multiple cultures share a stage through New Nordic Voices. WHAT IS NEW NORDIC VOICES CREATION? WHY?

We envision a world where creativity breaks free from the confines of cultural silos and rigid national identities that exclude “the other.” ACT is Denmark’s transnational theatre company, where diverse cultures come together and share a stage through New Nordic Voices. Different in vision... multiple cultures share a stage. Different in scope... reaching audiences across the Global North and Glob

al South. It emerges when a New Nordic exchange ideas with a native Nordic. What follows is a spark: a hybrid form of creativity that produces something fresh and unexpected, whether it’s an abstract concept or a tangible cultural product. That moment of fusion is a New Nordic Voices creation. Whether the creation draws from Nordic literature, revives classic plays through diverse lenses, or introduces cultural gems from a new Nordic’s country of origin, the aim remains the same: to invite dialogue, foster understanding, and reflect the complexity of our changing societies. WHO IS NEW NORDIC? Being a New Nordic isn’t just about showing up;. It’s not temporary. It’s about staying, settling—integrating, participating, and contributing meaningfully to the cultural life of the Nordic region. New Nordics are individuals from outside the Nordic region whose formative years were shaped my other cultures but now have made the Nordic countries their long-term home and are actively shaping its future. BEYOND BORDERS
New Nordic Voices doesn’t stop at the edge of the Nordic map. It reaches out—across countries, across continents. Through global collaborations and cross-cultural encounters, it sharpens its vision and reflects back a more inclusive, multilayered image of what it means to be Nordic today. By showcasing Nordic culture from fresh angles and allowing external influences to shape it in return, New Nordic Voices expands global perspectives and redefines the region’s cultural identity as something dynamic, inclusive, and boldly forward-looking. As a global audience reflects on Nordic culture from fresh angles, it expands international perspectives on the region and its enriched evolving identity. ACT: Afro Cosmopolite Thespians
ACT is the platform, the foundation, and the creative engine of New Nordic Voices. As a cultural hub, ACT fosters these encounters, nurtures emerging talent, and anchors the artistic processes that make New Nordic Voices possible. Because 21st-century theatre requires rethinking as it faces the realities of cultural pluralism and the irreversible impact of global migration, which have made our societies increasingly diverse. The understanding, therefore, must be that those who mirror society through art and storytelling must adapt accordingly if they are to remain relevant. Otherwise, we risk beautifully reflecting a world that no longer exists.

Four years on, we still remember the night we premiered August Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie - reimagined as Miss Juli...
22/07/2025

Four years on, we still remember the night we premiered August Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie - reimagined as Miss Julie’s Happy Valley by Michael Omoke - at Folketeatret, Copenhagen and later at the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland (2021).

Playbill Design: Ida Marie Krog Lassen
Styling & Costume Design: Mia Fasmer Schønnemann
Photography: Anis Dhiman

Hard to believe it’s been 9 years since we debuted with Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” Baltoppen LIVE , Ballerup...
19/07/2025

Hard to believe it’s been 9 years since we debuted with Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” Baltoppen LIVE , Ballerup - where it all began. Starting is a sprint, sustaining is a marathon.

It’s our 10th anniversary!(The photos may be a little blurry — but the memory is crystal clear) Today, ten years ago, I ...
28/03/2025

It’s our 10th anniversary!

(The photos may be a little blurry — but the memory is crystal clear)

Today, ten years ago, I had the rare privilege of bringing together the undisputed top creative geniuses in town — a remarkable constellation of minds. Each was shaped not by a “stable set of ideas,” but by distinct cultural backgrounds that had now converged in our new home: Denmark.

What you see in these photos are the exceptional, daring individuals who formed that very first board — the beginning of it all. From there, we established ACT: New Nordic Voices, complete with its legal setup and the drafting of our very first constitution.

From this legal core, another 30 artist members — representing 21 different nationalities — were grafted in at our very first AGM, becoming the entity’s first founding members.

What began as a shared dream with no production to show — only belief — has grown into a cultural force, and the pioneers of addressing diversity in performing arts in Denmark.

This wasn’t just the start of a theatre company — it was the beginning of a movement. One that would go on to redefine Nordic theatre, creating space for New Nordic Voices.

Here, all are welcomed.

Today, we celebrate a decade of vision.

Happy 10th Anniversary
www.thespians.dk

Here’s to the next chapter. 🥂

— Michael Omoke, Artistic Director

Ilham Herisi’s En Vred Kvinde is a stunning debut.I saw it months ago and was floored. Now, it’s back — and you can’t mi...
25/03/2025

Ilham Herisi’s En Vred Kvinde is a stunning debut.
I saw it months ago and was floored. Now, it’s back — and you can’t miss it — at Copenhagen Stage.

A genius has arrived.
As an actor, Ilham commands the stage effortlessly — bold, raw, poetic, incisive, and unapologetic —and she doubles — no, triples — as producer and playwright.

This solo piece blends razor-sharp irony, cheeky wit, and elegant storytelling to trace a brown woman’s journey in Denmark.
It doesn’t speak — it roars.

For a debut with such deep reflection, she’s definitely the rising force in town, and ACT: New Nordic Voices is backing her all the way.

See it during CPH STAGE, May 22–31, 2025, at Krudttønden.
Tickets:
https://teaterbilletter.dk/forestillinger/en-vred-kvinde-131669

Let’s turn up and celebrate her.

( Endorsed by Michael Omoke – Artistic Director, ACT: New Nordic Voices )

Diversity is not the ultimate goal; it is a powerful means to achieve a meaningful vision. In our case, that vision was ...
25/11/2024

Diversity is not the ultimate goal; it is a powerful means to achieve a meaningful vision. In our case, that vision was advocacy.

As we mark the beginning of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, I reflect on the role of theatre in driving meaningful conversations around this critical issue.

I had the privilege of conceiving the concept New Nordic Voices, under which we became the first company in the Nordic countries to produce Ntozake Shange’s Tony-nominated play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Su***de / When the Rainbow Is Enuf.

44 years after its world premiere on Broadway, the play debuted in the Nordics on International Women’s Day, March 8, in Helsinki, Finland, co-produced with our partner Caisa.

The production then came home to Denmark in August, where it was performed in Frederiksberg at KU.BE, before touring to Sweden, co-produced by our partner Intercult at the Stockholm Fringe Festival (STOFF). Later in October, it returned to Helsinki by special invitation and was performed at the headquarters of Nordic Culture Point, completing its Nordic journey for 2019 just before the global pandemic!

Big thanks to our funders:
• Nordic Council of Ministers
• Arts Council Norway
• Stockholm Municipality
• Helsinki Municipality
• Danish Embassy Finland
• Danish Embassy Stockholm

Building on this momentum, I conceived yet another concept, Silenced No More, which focused on using culture as a powerful advocacy tool to address Gender-Based Violence.

Through this project, we partnered with the Danish Embassy and the European Union in Kenya, who funded the initiative alongside the Danish Agency of Culture and Palaces. Together, we used culture as part of their advocacy strategy, featuring the play For Colored Girls in Kenya.

With performances in Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu, the production engaged more than 2,000 people in impactful dialogues and conversations, raising awareness and spurring action to end Gender-Based Violence in Kenya.

Special thanks to our visionary funders:
• European Union
• Danish Agency of Culture and Palaces
• Danish Embassy Kenya

Who knows? We might just revive it in a country or city near you!

Michael Omoke
Artistic Director

Eight years ago today, in 2016, the world was commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s demise. Concu...
24/08/2024

Eight years ago today, in 2016, the world was commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s demise. Concurrently, our theatre company debuted with the Bard’s complex play, “The Merchant of Venice.” The stakes and risks were immense—a debut with a cast and crew of 22, including actors and musicians from 14 different nationalities.
Memory album.

I had no idea at the time that “diversity” would become a buzzword. I simply thought, “How cool would it be if all cultu...
18/06/2024

I had no idea at the time that “diversity” would become a buzzword. I simply thought, “How cool would it be if all cultures shared a stage?” In August 2016, our company, ACT: New Nordic Voices, debuted with “The Merchant of Venice” by William Shakespeare, featuring a dynamic cast of 19 people (including 2 musicians) from 14 different nationalities, all residing in Denmark.

When traditional fundraising fell flat and no one believed in us, our team didn’t back down. We said, “Fine, let’s ask the public to crowdfund this and we’ll also contribute in kind.” Baltoppen LIVE opened their venue to us. But the real deal was the relentless dedication of our cast, crew, and director, who made the impossible happen.

Eight years later, I look back in awe at how that first bold step set the stage for everything that followed. It’s incredible to see how the conversation around diversity has finally hit the mainstream.

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MISS JULIE’S OUT OF AFRICA

Miss Julie's Out Of Africa introduces ( Theatre production, Workshops, Seminar) "Miss Julie" (A Nordic Theatre Classic by Swedish playwright August Strindberg ) to the Nordic & Global South audiences as typologies of Colonial Era ( Kenya – in both 1920s and 1950s ) andApartheid Era ( South Africa 1948 – 1990s).

BBC ( BESIDES BLIXENS COLONIAL )

A prismed workshop that refracts Strindberg and his work of Miss Julie from a historic colonial era standpoint. The objective is to refract Strindberg's dominant class theme in "Miss Julie" from a historic standpoint of Colonial Era and Apartheid era. By telling the untold stories of Nordic citizens ( Besides Karen Blixen) who migrated and made settlement in the Global South of Sub-Saharan Africa (Eastern and Southern Africa), before the World War 1. We will be examining who they were, why they migrated to Africa, what was their relationship with the "natives" of the land, what were their position during colonialism and the Apartheid Era, what did they pioneer, etc