Meet the Team

Annika received her Bachelor of Arts degree in set and costume design from Dramatiska Institutet 1997 and has since designed sets and costumes for over 80 theatre productions, mostly in Sweden but occasionally abroad. These productions range from children’s theatre to dance, new writing and classical works. Annika completed a master’s degree in Sustainable Performing Arts at Stockholm University of the Arts 2021 where she presented her study, Climate: The Story of our Lives. Annika was chosen to participate in Julie´s Bicycles sustainability program Creative Climate Leadership, Sweden 2021-22 and was awarded the organization’s grant for further work in 2022. 2024 Annika was one of the founders to Sustainable Kultur life NOW/ Hållbart Kulturliv Nu in Sweden. She also joined as a Climate Pact Ambassador arranged by The European Climate Pact Secretariat. Working alongside director Dritëro Kasapi, artistic director at Riksteatern (The Swedish National Touring Theatre), she has designed over 20 productions including Pinoccio and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Uppsala Stadsteater, Hamlet at Örebro Länsteater and Othelloand Dance of Death at Riksteatern, The God of Carnage at Teater, I and Enron at Örebro Länsteater, the last two mentioned won the theatre critics prize for best production in the year they were produced. At Stockholm City Theatre they created The Suppliant Women, a co-production with Al-Harah Theatre in Beit Jala, West Bank. Several of Annika productions have been selected to perform at the Swedish Performing Arts Biennale. These include Fair Game (Uppsala Stadsteater), Gymnopedie (Riksteatern) Medea’s Children (Unga Klara) and seven methods of killing Kylie Jenner (Riksteatern). Other productions have toured internationally, for example Dritëro Kasapi’s Riksteatern production Head On which toured to Volksbühne in Berlin and on to Istanbul. For Amir Nizar Zuabi Annika designed Ravinen(The Ravine 2021) and Kusinerna (The cousins 2025) at Riksteatern and Sheltered Worlds at the Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, October 2021, part of the Little Amal project with The Walk Productions.