Asiasanat – Drama

TINFO’s International Highlights for 2026

In 2026, Theatre Info Finland (TINFO) continues to strengthen the international presence of Finnish...

Juha Jokela, mitä kuuluu?

Juha Jokelan näytelmät ovat kuumaa kamaa, niitä esitetään paljon niin Suomessa eri teattereissa kuin...

Sala Beckett -näytelmäkirjailijoiden työpaja 2026

Tutustu ja hae 22.2.2026 mennessä.

Nine Finnish Playwrights Featured at Gothenburg Book Fair

E. L. Karhu, Leea Klemola, Pipsa Lonka, Christoffer Mellgren, Arni Rajamäki, Laura Ruohonen, Otto Sa...

Exakthet i det subjektiva

Milja Sarkolas skrivande rör sig mellan dagbokens intima röst och teaterns kollektiva form. Hon söke...

Möt dramatiker från Finland på Göteborgs bokmässa 25-28.9.2025, tidtabell

De finländska dramatikerna är: E.L. Karhu, Leea Klemola, Pipsa Lonka, Christoffer Mellgren, Arni Raj...

Suomesta viisi mukaan Think Tankiin

Mukaan avoimen haun kautta haki ja valittiin Rasmus Arikka, Juhana von Bagh, Katariina Numminen, Pau...

Marta Aliide Jakovski, What’s Up?

Marta Aliide Jakovski staged The Fundamentalist by Finnish playwright Juha Jokela at Tallinn’s Von K...

Ennennäkemätön näyteikkuna näytelmille

Näytelmäkirjallisuus on pääosassa Göteborgin kansainvälisillä kirjamessuilla syyskuussa. Pääteemasta...

Drama at the Gothenburg Book Fair

The largest cultural event in the Nordics – the Gothenburg Book Fair – will spotlight drama as its m...

Jason Beckmann, What’s Up?

Finnish playwright Juha Jokela’s play The Fundamentalist (2006) is about to be revived in New York....

Open call: Aurora Drama Award 2025

Competition entries for this year's edition can be submitted until April 28, 2025.

Open Call for New Play Workshop at The Office for New Plays UNTO

A workshop for playwrights / writing directors takes place in Helsinki on 17-18 December 2024. Apply...

R.E.A.D 10 festival Helsinki

This year the festival takes place on 16th and 19th of October.

Shaking it up: on toppling traditions

Playwright and director Arni Rajamäki first emerged onto the Finnish theatre scene with their final...

Open Call for Participation

The Nordic-Baltic Drama Network is looking for suggestions for short performances, seminars, innovat...

The natural world is vulnerable – that’s the story we need to tell

Playwright Pipsa Lonka’s new drama Peter lived in a house – a dolphin dot-to-dot is a philosophical...

Seagulls to make their voices heard in Poland and Czech Republic

Leading Finnish playwright Pipsa Lonka’s sky every day is set to debut in Prague later this year, wi...

Maailma näyttämölle -tapahtuma 18.3.2024

Ma 18.3.2024 klo 13-17 Helsingin Kaupunginteatterin Suuren näyttämön lämpiössä. World on Stage proje...

Finnish works around the world

Finnish performers, writers and works around the world

Performance and Solidarity

Tilaa uusi, englanninkielinen kirjoituskokoelma itsellesi.

TINFO GRANT for translations

We support the translation and subtitling of Finnish drama.

Looking for playwrights and dramatic texts

Pink Pavilion is looking for one Finnish or Finland-based playwright who is interested in having an...

Thinking with the body

Elli Salo is an artist with many strings to her bow. Playwright, writer, author of radio plays, tran...

Saara Turunen’s rooms: making space for exploring social norms

A brand new theatre aesthetic, established under the leadership of Finnish author and theatre direct...

Pipsa Lonka’s Second Nature to premiere in Buenos Aires

Plataforma Fluorescente in Argentina has emerged as an important producer of new plays and theatre t...

Out of the margins

Six contemporary Finnish plays have recently been compiled into an anthology and translated into Cat...

Theatre from a vulnerable planet

The language of seagulls and the sheer diversity of sounds they make were a huge source of fascinati...

The World on Stage: TINFO embarks on new project

The animals around us have had enough and are saying goodbye to humankind. An undocumented young Mor...

A garden of writing – Finnish theatre makers at the Sala Beckett

Klaus Maunuksela is set to take part in this year’s summer workshop at Barcelona’s world-renowned Sa...

World on Stage

A new drama project supports the translation and staging of foreign drama in Finland. Funding for th...

Are remakes the real deal?

Remakes could offer a sustainable, ethical and financially viable way to run international theatre p...

Three Finnish plays head for Vilnius

Elli Salo’s Alina, Mika Myllyaho’s Garage and Tuomas Timonen’s Stabbed for Complaining About the Noi...

Theatre bridging the Baltic Sea

Q&A with Jukka Hyde Hytti, theatre producer par excellence and international projects executive at T...

Garage on stage in London

Finnish playwright Mika Myllyaho’s plays have been performed in 15 countries to date. In October, he...

Saara Turunen’s play to open in Germany

Written and directed by Saara Turunen, The Phantom of Normality is set to open at Schauspielhaus Boc...

New Nordic Voices. This week!

Digital Event: 29th March - 2nd April 2021.

Exploring ethics in contemporary Finnish drama

Dr Katri Tanskanen shares her picks for Finnish plays that create a safe space for readers and audie...

World, meet Finnish drama

Thanks to TINFO’s translation grants, quirky and unique drama from Finland can be seen and enjoyed b...

Acting for justice

We posed three questions to Christoffer Mellgren, author of Cutting a Cake – A play about justice in...

A classic retold

E.L. Karhu’s new play Eriopis is a freewheeling retelling of Euripides’ Medea. Its world premiere p...

Arda Yildirim moves through time and space

This year's new Nordic voice from Finland is a playwright who’s not afraid to explore the inner work...

A Slice of Finnish Drama - World Theatre Day 2021

A Play Reading of Christoffer Mellgren’s Cutting a Cake: A Play About Justice in Six Uneven Slices...

Nature sees us

Pipsa Lonka’s posthumanist play dissects our human-centred way of seeing the world. It is now set to...

New Nordic Voices - a showcase and more

Online event takes place on 29 March - 2 April 2021 with drama readings, panel discussions, mastercl...

Suomidraama maailmalla

Aurora Drama Award for new plays

First time. Open call. Apply until 15 April, 2021.

Give me back my voice!

E.L. Karhu’s new commission for Schauspiel Leipzig gives voice to the voiceless Eriopis who has esca...

Drama translations database

TINFO provides a database of Finnish plays in translation. Over 700 original titles and more than 13...

TINFO Magazines

Magazines on Solidarity, Sustainability, Resilience and Performance Utopias, among others.

New Plays from Finland

Family. Gender roles. Childhood. Mental health. Religion. Trauma. New Plays from Finland!

New Plays from Finland

Showcasing contemporary Finnish plays and authors to international audiences.