Shakespeare's HENRY V | January 13-29 | New Muses Theatre Company
Niclas Olson
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    • Original Plays >
      • Frankenstein
      • Last Waltz on a Midnight Violin
      • Dirty Laundry
    • Adaptations >
      • A Doll's House
      • Doctor Faustus
      • Ghosts
      • Hamlet
      • Lysistrata
      • Manfred
      • Miss Julie
      • Peer Gynt
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • R.U.R
      • The Seagull
      • A Servant of Two Masters
      • Six Characters in Search of an Author
      • Tartuffe
    • Unproduced Works >
      • Babes in Toyland
      • God of Vengeance
      • Spring's Awakening
      • The Tempest
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Niclas Olson’s adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, Carlo Goldoni’s A Servant of Two Masters, Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, A Doll’s House, and Peer Gynt, Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, Molière’s Tartuffe, Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein were commissioned and performed by New Muses Theatre Company. His original plays Last Waltz on a Midnight Violin and Dirty Laundry have been staged at Pacific Lutheran University. He studied playwriting in London and received his degree in theatre from Pacific Lutheran University.

Originals

Diary of a Madman | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Last Waltz on a Midnight Violin   |  Pacific Lutheran University  (Tacoma, WA)
Dirty Laundry  |  Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA)

Adaptations

Frank Wedekind's Spring's Awakening | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA) [postponed]
William Shakespeare's Henry IV | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA) 
Lord Byron's Manfred | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Karel Capek's R.U.R | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Anton Chekhov's The Seagull | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Molière's Tartuffe, from a translation by Curtis Hidden Page | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
William Shakespeare's Hamlet | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Glen MacDonough's Babes in Toyland  | Tacoma Little Theatre and New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Aristophanes' Lysistrata​, from a translation by Oscar Wilde | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Carlo Goldoni's A Servant of Two Masters | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author  |  New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
August Strindberg's Miss Julie  |  New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus  |  New Muses Theatre Company  (Tacoma, WA)
William Shakespeare's Hamlet  |  New Muses Theatre Company  (Morton, WA)

Education

Graduate of Pacific Lutheran University's BFA Acting and Directing program.  Cum Laude.

Awards and Nominations

BroadwayWorld Seattle: Best new play or adaptation for "Tartuffe" (Nominee)
BroadwayWorld Seattle: Best new play or adaptation for "Hamlet" (Nominee)
BroadwayWorld Seattle: Best new play or adaptation for "Frankenstein" (Nominee)
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