HISTORY

OSLO ELSEWHERE was founded by Anna Gutto and Sarah Cameron Sunde in 2004, with a mission to bring Jon Fosse’s plays to American audiences. Creating American English translations that would resonate with a U.S. audience was central to their work — establishing Sarah Cameron Sunde as Fosse’s primary American English translator and director. Oslo Elsewhere formally introduced Fosse to American audiences with NIGHT SINGS ITS SONGS at The Culture Project’s 45 Below Theater (2004) to critical acclaim, with The New York Times describing the production as “uniformly excellent.” In 2005, Oslo Elsewhere was commissioned to create VARIATIONS ON A THEME for their Royal Highness King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway during their official visit to New York. To mark the Ibsen centennial in 2006, Oslo Elsewhere produced an IBSEN/FOSSE double bill with Henrik Ibsen’s ROSMERSHOLM and Fosse’s DEATHVARIATIONS at 59E59 Theaters, developed in partnership with the National Theater in Norway. In 2008, they produced Jon Fosse’s SA KA LA back at 45 Bleecker Theater. Oslo Elsewhere continued to support Sunde’s next three translations/productions of Fosse’s plays: A SUMMER DAY, DREAM OF AUTUMN, and SLEEP at Rattlestick/The Cherry Lane Theatre in New York and Quantum Theater in Pittsburgh. Sunde’s translations have been published in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art and Oslo Elsewhere’s work has been written up in The New York Times, Variety, The Village Voice, The New Yorker, The Brooklyn Rail, among others, and has received notable recognition across Norwegian media and press. 

Oslo Elsewhere put their work together on hold around 2014 when Sunde moved her practice towards media and performance art and Gutto went into film. Now they are reuniting to further the work for Jon Fosse in the US.