Swedish director, former theatre manager, dramaturge, cultural critic and writer of liner notes, born 28 April 1947.

He has a phil. kand. in literature, theatre and film studies and has studied music in Sweden and abroad. He began his theatre career at Stockholm's student theatre, before he and a few colleagues started the independent, experimental Teater 9 in Stockholm in 1969. There he worked as artistic director, director, actor and more until 1991 and made the theatre known for a narrow, exclusive international repertoire in a number of productions, specializing in German-speaking playwrights such as Heiner Müller and Thomas Bernhard. From 1988 to 1995 he was director of the Radio Theatre, where he has also directed a number of productions over the years. From 1997 he has mostly worked with opera, as chief dramaturge at the Royal Swedish Opera from 1997 to 2013 and chief dramaturge and director at Malmö Opera from 2010 to 2017.

In 1997 he directed Richard Wagner's extensive Ring of the Nibelung in Dalhalla and Parsifal at Malmö Opera in 2012. For directing the Nordic premiere of Aribert Reimann's expressionist opera Lear in spring 2013 at Malmö Opera he was awarded the Kvällsposten Thalia Prize in 2013. He has written a number of cultural articles and is a member of the international theatre industry organisation ITI's body for new music theatre, Music theatre now.