Original founding circle of 30 artists from 21 nationalities.
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Stories with heat, fracture, and beauty
ACT’s productions move through desire, race, class, memory, migration, and power with a language designed to land emotionally before it explains itself.
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Performance as dialogue, not decoration
The company’s work reaches beyond the stage through encounters, partnerships, and public conversations with audiences, institutions, and cultural networks.
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Immersive worlds with international reach
ACT’s current horizon expands into literary, spatial, and multisensory work that can attract both institutions and younger audiences looking for a world to enter.
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ACT’s next chapter is bold, visual, and immersive: a literary world-building project designed to travel across geographies, institutions, and audiences.
Seven Gothic Tales — The Global Project
Conceived and reimagined by Michael Omoke
Produced by ACT: New Nordic Voices
A large-scale, multisensory Gesamtkunstwerk reimagining Karen Blixen’s classic debut Seven Gothic Tales (1934) as immersive installations across Denmark, the United States, Tanzania (Zanzibar), and Kenya.
The work’s opening chapter, The Dreamers — From Zanzibar to Milan, transforms Blixen’s tale into an immersive spatial labyrinth and establishes the first movement in a longer sequence translating all seven tales into lived, sensory environments rather than static reading experiences.
Supported in part by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Danish Ministry of Culture.
In partnership with Karen Blixen Museum, Rungstedlund, Denmark and the Consulate General of Denmark in New York.
CLASSICS
A selected archive of productions where classics are reopened through migration, race, desire, public speech, and transnational collaboration.
Enter dossier →Silenced No More
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf was performed in Nairobi, Kisumu, and Mombasa as the creative engine of the Silenced No More project, which reached more than 3,000 people through performance, dialogue, and public engagement.
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Enter dossier →Miss Julie’s Happy Valley
Michael Omoke’s Miss Julie’s Happy Valley, after August Strindberg, reimagines the classic through colonial Kenya’s Happy Valley world—where class, desire, race, and power collide in a transnational dramatic landscape.
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Enter dossier →For Colored Girls
On March 8, 2019 — exactly 44 years after its Broadway world premiere — ACT premiered the first Nordic production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf in Helsinki, before later performances in Denmark and Sweden under New Nordic Voices.
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Enter dossier →An Enemy of the People
Actors from Denmark, Sweden, and Norway came together for the Ballerup, Denmark performance of Arthur Miller’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People.
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Enter dossier →The Merchant of Venice
ACT’s debut-era staging of Shakespeare enters a modern ceremonial world of law, mercy, desire, and public spectacle — with Shylock, Portia, Antonio, and Bassanio recast through a sharp contemporary theatrical lens.
Enter dossier →ACT Across Nation & Time
A transnational journey through productions, platforms, exchanges, and cultural milestones from 2016 to 2028. This premium map–timeline reads ACT through both chronology and geography.
Read ACT not as a list of productions, but as a movement between cities, institutions, and artistic thresholds.
2016
Production
The Merchant of Venice
Copenhagen, Denmark
ACT’s founding-era debut and institutional starting point.
2017
Exchange
Share Experience Workshop + Conference
Malmö / Copenhagen
Early intercultural dialogue and collaborative development across borders.
2017
Production
An Enemy of the People
Ballerup, Denmark
A major Nordic classic brought into renewed public conversation.
2018
Platform
New Nordic Voices
Across the Nordics / Iceland
Expansion of ACT’s cross-Nordic cultural framework, including Icelandic cultural exchange.
2019
Production
For Colored Girls
Helsinki / Frederiksberg / Stockholm
A landmark multinational collaboration across Nordic cities.
2021
Production
Miss Julie’s Happy Valley
Copenhagen / Helsinki
A major reinterpretation linking Nordic text and East African imagination.
2021
Development
Miss Julie’s Out of Africa
Copenhagen / Nairobi
Extension of ACT’s transnational dramatic world-building.
2023
Initiative
Silenced No More
Kenya / Denmark / South Africa
Expanded civic and international cultural engagement through theatre and wider African dialogue.
2024
Platform
Nordic Classics Reimagined
Denmark / New York
ACT’s curatorial and reinterpretive framework grows in international visibility.
2026–2028
Expansion
Seven Gothic Tales — Global Project
Denmark / United States / Zanzibar / Kenya
A long-horizon artistic pathway unfolding through installations, spatial works, and transcontinental cultural partnerships across Denmark, the United States, Zanzibar, and Kenya.
2016
The Merchant of Venice
ACT’s founding-era debut and institutional starting point.
About ACT
Denmark’s transnational theatre company and cultural platform.
ACT: New Nordic Voices was founded by Michael Omoke between 26 June 2014 and 29 March 2015 in collaboration with 30 artists from 21 nationalities, who formed the organisation’s original founding circle.
ACT: New Nordic Voices is Denmark’s transnational theatre company, developing productions, artistic exchange, and public cultural dialogue across the Nordics, Africa, and beyond. Established to reflect and aesthetically engage cultural diversification through serious artistic work and international collaboration, ACT continues to create productions, partnerships, and encounters that connect multiple cultural traditions and new voices across borders.
View Resident Artists2014–2015Founding period
30Artists in the original founding circle
21Nationalities represented at founding
Current reach169 artists from 46 countries across the Nordics and beyond
Work with ACT
Open to collaborations, dialogue, and cultural partnerships.
ACT welcomes dialogue with artists, institutions, presenters, embassies, universities, museums, cultural platforms, and supporters interested in productions, collaborations, and public cultural programming.
Institutional Contact
- Email artisticdirector@thespians.dk
- Base Copenhagen, Denmark
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