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BIOGRAPHY  

​​I am a Swedish director and actor, born 1967 in Stockholm. When I was ten years old, my family moved to the tiny village Väster Eka north of the small town Norrtälje. Growing up, I dreamed of becoming a professional footballer, a tennis star, a guitar virtuoso – or maybe an actor. At the age of 23, the pieces fell into place and I started my training as an actor at Spegelteatern - a seed-bed for actors in Stockholm. I continued my studies under Jurij Lederman at his studio and theater, Teaterstudio Lederman between 1993 - 1996. Jurij Lederman has his roots in the Russian theatre tradition, a tradition that became a strong and recurring source of inspiration for Yngve.

The period following the education were intense with work at several theatres; Teater Tribunalen, Turteatern and Riksteatern as well as acting in the the popular tv series Rederiet at Swedish Television. At the same time, I also attended Michael Chekhov seminars a couple of summers, and made contact with Russian actors and directors. My choice to study directing under Professor Jurij Alschitz in 2001 became a logical next step.

The years between 2000-2010 entailed many productions, as an actor as well as director. I work recurringly at the theatre Ung Scen Öst, amongst other in the successful play Lavv, which is selected as one of the best performances by The Swedish Performing Arts Biennial 2005. At the same time as Elfriede Jelinek recieves the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, I´m starring in her play Bambiland at Teater Tribunalen. I also work in Norway during this period, playing the Swedish business tycoon Marcus Wallenberg in Norske Riksteatrets major production Birkeland & Eyde. I am then comissioned by the artistic leader of Ung Scen Öst, Måns Lagerlöf, to create a piece of theater with teenagers from the city of Linköping. During a process of 8 months, the text is created by the young actors, and the playwright Christian Augrell, which results in the performance Det Är Vi Som Är Dom. A few years later I return to Norway and play the role of the famous playwright Henrik Ibsen in Jeg Er Ikke Nora (I Am Not Nora) at Hålogalandteatern. The play is directed by the Ibsen master Terje Maerli and deals with ‘the forgotten’ writer Laura Kieler – her life and her great impact on Ibsen as a playwright. During this period I also participate in various film – and TV -productions such as Kopps, Leo, Nya Tider and Livet i Fagervik.

I introduce the Danish playwright Line Mørkeby to a Swedish audience by directing the play 6 P LR K. This is followed by an extensive tour with Sweden’s National Touring Theater (Riksteatern) and the play Håpas Du Trifs Bra i Fängelset by Susanna Alakoski, in which i play the drug addicted brother Sami. Straight after this I direct a spectacular As You Like It by Shakespeare, which to my delight is met with great critical acclaim.

Between 2014 and 2018, I starr in a number of plays at Uppsala City Theatre and Folkteatern in Gothenburg. In Uncle Vanya I portray the part of Astrov as an alcoholic, and at the same time a fervent environmentalist. I have always been personally engaged in environmental issues and at the request of the director Yana Ross, I adapt and rewrite Astrov’s monologues to address contemporary climate changes, which becomes a noteworthy element of the performance. We also play at the Tampere Theatre Festival, and the production is selected as one of the best performances by The Swedish Performing Arts Biennial in 2015.

In the spring of 2016, I direct Elfriede Jelinek's newly written play Charges (The Supplicants). An acutely relevant play which is described as “a play about refugees and human value in Europe of today which also demonstrates the potential of the stage art.” The performance receives brilliant reviews. In 2018 I direct the Danish youth play SjuktFrisk at Örebro Theatre, and the play is thus introduced in Sweden.

2017 I play Polonius in Hamlet, directed by Jens Ohlin at Teater Galeasen. The production is hugely successful, it wins the Thalia Prize and is selected for the Swedish Performing Arts Biennial in 2019. The same year we perform the play again – it is once again sold out, and also filmed for cinema and Swedish Television.
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From 2020 to 2026, amongst other things, I starr at Stockholm City Theatre in My Fantastic Friend and Kulla-Gulla - where I play the part of Mamsell Modig. I also portray Hugo Rask in a sold-out Egenmäktigt Förfarande at Borås City Theatre, and reunite with the director Yana Ross in The Seagull as Trigorin at Gothenburg City Theatre. From 2022 to 2023, I participate in the Leadership Training Course for Performing Arts Directors, developed by the Theatre Alliance in collaboration with the Safety Council TRS, Swedish Performing Arts and the Swedish Union of Stage & Film. I also direct Läs Detta Brev och Darra at Stockholm City Theatre - a newly written monologue about Axel von Fersen. The performance is incredibly well-received and filmed by Swedish Television. At Kulturhuset Spira in Jönköping, I direct the youth play Jag Vet Vem Du Är in 2026, and in the autumn of the same year I`m portraying Cherea in Caligula by Albert Camus at Stockholm City Theatre.

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