Peter Oskarson is a Swedish

Sweden

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 theatre director and actor

Actor

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 from Stockholm

Stockholm

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. He was educated at the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting

Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting

The National Academy of Mime and Acting , known in Swedish as Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm, is a school in Stockholm for acting and mime...

 from 1971-73, where he studied directing under Rudolf Penka, Wolfgang Heinz and Giorgio Strehler

Giorgio Strehler

Giorgio Strehler was an Italian opera and theatre director.-Biography:Strehler was born in Barcola, Trieste to an Austrian father and a Franco-Slovene mother; he grew up speaking Italian but spoke French well and his German was passable. He became suddenly fatherless at the age of three, his...

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Oskarson has been the artistic director

Artistic director

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 of several theatre companies, including Teater 7 (1965-1969), Skånska Teatern (1973-1982), Folkteatern i Gävleborg (1982-1990 and 1997-2006), Orionteatern (1993-2000), and Stiftelsen Helsingegården (1990-2004).

Oskarson has received the Alf Sjöberg Prize, the Theatre Prize of the Swedish Academy (1989), the Olof Högberg Prize (1990), the Theatre prize of Expressen

Expressen

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and the Thalia Prize of Svenska Dagbladet

Svenska Dagbladet

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(1990), the Thalia Prize of Malmö

Malmö

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(1994), the Culture Prize of Hembygdsförbundet (2000), the Sture Linnér Prize (2002), and the Culture Prize of Gefle Dagblads (2004).