Petra Revenue (Writing)

Petra Revenue is a Swedish playwright, screenwriter, and director. She has published several books and short story collections since 2006 but is also active in radio, television, film, and theater. Since 1990, she has been one of the driving forces behind Teater Trixter, one of Gothenburg's largest independent theatre groups. Petra Revenue made her debut as a screenwriter in 1992 and about 20 of her works have been staged in various forms, several of them critically acclaimed. Revenue is a wildly cross-genre screenwriter since she started her work for film and television around the year 2000, she has, for example, written screenplays for two of the film adaptations of Henning Mankell's Wallander, Stora teatern - an absurd drama for SVT, and the award-winning youth film Isdraken. Her long and broad experience can also be seen in her commitment to education, today she is one of the main people behind Alma Löv's...Read More