Ingunn Lára Kristjánsdóttir
Director and librettist
Ingunn Lára Kristjánsdóttir is the librettist and director of Kornið, a new chamber opera with music by Birgit Djupedal. Her previous work includes #echochamber, a twitter opera that premiered at Tjarnarbíó in May and toured the UK in August 2018, ending at Tete-a-tete opera festival. She is a member of the writers' association of Iceland and a 2018 recipient of the Martha's Vineyard Creative Writing Institute fellowship. Ingunn has a bachelors degree in American Theatre Arts from Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance and is finishing her master studies in creative writing at the University of Iceland. Her work has been described as "Brilliantly effective... and beautifully written." (Canal Street News)" and "...stunningly poetic"(Matthew Cleverly reviews).