Curriculum vitae
Johan Petri
Theater Director, Dramatist, Dramaturge, Composer and Artistic Researcher
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Education
PhD, Artistic Research/Performance Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 2010-16
Conducting Orchestral, University College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden. 2008-10
Theater Science BA, Stockholm University, Sweden. 1987-89
Composition Electro Acoustic Music, Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden. 1984-85
Performance Classical Music/Composition, Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden. 1980-84
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2025
​Director, Electricity is a Force of Nature, Radioart, Stockholm
Musician, Certain Magical Moves, Alice Musik Produktion ALCD029
Director Dramatist, To celebrate one's own inner contradictins and inconsistencies II (radioversion),
Radioart, Sweden
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2024
Director Dramatist, Become a Savage, Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art, Stockholm
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2022-24
Director Producer, Breath with Differnt Duration, Radioart, Sweden
Director Dramatist, To celebrate one's own inner contradictins and inconsistencies II,
Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art, Stockholm
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2023
Director Producer, Where we have been is where we are, Radioart, Sweden
Director Dramatist, Red Doc>, Anne Carson, Radioart, Accelerator, Stockholm, Sweden
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2021
Director Producer, Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, G Stein, Radioart, Stockholm
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2020
Director Dramatist, I Think Fiercely, A Notley, Radioart, Stockholm, Sweden
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2019 ​
Dramatist, To celebrate one's own inner contradictins and inconsistencies
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2016 ​​
Dramatist, Red Doc>, by Anne Carson, adaptation
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2015
Director, The Price of Everything, by Sonja Åkesson, Fri Scen/Stockholm City Theater,
Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art, Stockholm, Sweden
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2014
Director, Dramatist, The Blurred, The Factory, Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art,
Stockholm, Sweden
Director, The Baron in the Trees, opera by I Calvino/I Nilsson/ M Jacobsson, Alice Collective for
Sound&Stage Art, Stockholm, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden
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2012
Director, Ryoanji – A Meeting, House of Dance, Stockholm, Sweden
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2011
Director Dramatist, John and the Mushrooms, Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden
Dramaturge, Now the time is waiting, by Kristina Lugn, Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art, Teater Brunnsgatan 4, Stockholm, Sweden
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2010
Director, The hard and the soft, by Öyvind Fahlström, Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art,
Tensta Art Center, House of Dance, Stockholm, Sweden
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2009
Director, The Loaf or the Lamp, by Erik Beckman, Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art,
Teater Pero, Stockholm, Sweden
Musical dramaturge, Saul et Jonathan, M A Charpentier, cond. Fredrik Malmberg, Ensemble Vokalharmonien, Rhein Vokal Festival, Germany
Director Producer, vorschläge, sound installation based on M Spahlinger, Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art, Tensta Art Center, Stockholm, Sweden
Director, Dido&Aeneas, Henry Purcell, conductor Fredrik Malmberg, Oskars Parish House,
Västerås Castle, Sweden.
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2008
Dramaturge, The Merry Widow, Lehar, Folkoperan, Stockholm, Sweden
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2007
Director Set Designer, I am I because my little dog knows me, Gertrude Stein, Unga Klara,
Stockholm City Theatre, Sweden
Composer Dramatist/Dramaturge, Acre, video in collaboration with Marjetica Potcr, Art Biannual Sao Paolo, Max Proctor Gallery, NYC, USA
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2006
Director, The Blue Bull, Birgitta Lillpers, Swedish State Radio
Composer Dramaturge, Baby Drama, Unga Klara, Stockholm City Theater, Sweden
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2004/5
Director Producer, Sonata, video installation, Old Town, Stockholm, Sweden
Composer Dramaturge, Cabaret Subsumption, Unga Klara, Stockholm City Theater Sweden
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2003
Director, The Explorer, by Stig Dagerman, Swedish State Radio
Composer Musical Dramaturge, Clandestino, Mia Törnqvist, Intercult/Teater Tribunalen, Stockholm, Sweden
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2002
Composer Musical Dramaturge, The Most Important, by Nikolaj Jevreinov, Unga Klara,
Stockholm City Theater, Sweden
Director, Under Milkwood, by Dylan Thomas, Swedish State Radio
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2001
Director, Mamma, by Jörgen Gassilewski, Swedish State Radio
Composer Musical Dramaturge, The Royal Daycare, Unga Klara, Stockholm City Theater, Sweden
Composer Musical Dramaturge, Dark Times, by Henning Mankell, Unga Klara, Stockholm City Theater, Sweden
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2000
Composer Dramaturge, The Border, Stockholm City Theater, Sweden
Composer Musical Dramaturge, The Investigation, Oratorio in 11 Cantos, by Peter Weiss, Riksteatern, Sweden
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1999
Director, The Free Thinker, by August Strindberg, Swedish State Radio
Composer Musical Dramaturge, Complicated People, Stockholm City Theater, Sweden
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1998
Composer Musical Dramaturge, The Magic Flute, W A Mozart, Finnish National Opera, Helsinki, Finland
Composer, The Perfect Pernilla, The Pantomime Theater, Stockholm, Sweden
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1997
Composer Musical Dramaturge, The Donated Heart, by Eva Ström, Swedish State Radio
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1996
Composer Musical Producer, Bengbulan, film by S Osten, Gothenburg Film festival
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1995
Director, Ghost Sonata, August Strindberg, Irondale Ensemble Project, New York City, USA
Composer Musical Dramaturge, A Family Affair, Ostrowsky, Irondale Ensemble Project,
New York City, USA.
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1994
Composer Musician, I Fear this War, Alice Musik Prod, ALCD 012
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1993
Director, The Skirt, by Magnus Jacobsson, Earth Circus, Stockholm, Sweden
Composer Musical Producer, Speak! It’s so dark, film by Suzanne Osten, Nominated for best film music
Nordic Film Festival Haugesund, Norway
Composer, Faust, J W Goethe, Swedish State Radio
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1992
Composer Musical Dramaturge, Oedipus, Euripides, Stockholm City Theater, Sweden
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1991
Director, On Goodness, by Willy Kyrklund, Earth Circus, Stockholm, Sweden
Composer Musical Dramaturge, The Piggle, from D W Winnicot, Unga Klara, Stockholm City Theater, Sweden
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Jakobsbergs Community College, dramatic writing, 2019-2023
Istanbul Int. Theatre Festival, Turkey, acting/theatrical composition (workshop ). 2017
Orpheus Institute, Gent, Belgium, lecturing/supervision artistic research. 2014-15
UC Berkeley, Department of Performance Studies, lectures on dramaturgy/directing. 2013
University of Gothenburg, Dramatic Writing and Concept Developing (course/actors). 2012
University of Gothenburg, Presentation of Productions (seminar). 2012
Royal Collage of Music, Stockholm, Musical Dramaturgy and Communication (course). 2011
Berghs School of Communication, Stockholm, lectures on dramaturgy/directing. 2010
Beckmans College of Design, Sound Art in Public Spaces (course). 2009
Beijing National Theater/Beijing, China, Contemporary Swedish Drama (seminar). 2002
Irondale Ensemble Project, NYC, USA, Contemporary Swedish Drama (seminar). 1999
Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, Musical Dramaturgy (series of seminars). 1998
Hochschule für musik, Karlsruhe, Germany, Non-idiomatic Improvisation (seminar). 1987
University of Växsjö, Sweden, Non-idiomatic Music Improvisation (series of seminars). 1996
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Published books, articles, lectures (selective)
Theatre, Politics and Ongoingness. 2025. Stockholm University Press
The Rhythm of Thinking: Immanence and Ethics in Theater Performance. 2016. ArtMonitor, Gothenburg,
Creating Performative Critique - A reflective attempt of a dramaturgical and methodological kind on One Less Manifesto, by Gilles Deleuze. 2015. Orpheus Publications.
Thinking and the theatrical event. 2013. Conf. The Event in Political and Artistic Practice, Amsterdam, Holland.
John Cage and the Production of Meaning. 2011. Conf. Artistic Research, Brno, Czech Republic.
The Theatrical Expression of the Text; Staging Gertrude Stein. 2009. Kritiker 13, Sweden.
Rhythm and the Quality of Dialogue in Theater Performance. 2008. Lund, Sweden.
Poems for Paintings. 2007. Malmö, Sweden.
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Related Activities
Founder, Radioteatern/Radioart, digital plattform for radio plays, hörspiele and sound art, 2019. www.radioart.se
Artistic Researcher, The Rhythm of Thinking: Immanence and Ethics in Theater Performance, PhD, University of Gothenburg, 2016
Founder and executive producer of record and book publishing company Alice Musik Produktion, since 1989. www.alice-musik.se
Founder and artistic director of Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art, a group of theater artists, writers, composers and musicians that works with commissioning and producing new stage art. Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art, since 2009. www.alicekollektiv.se
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Comment on Curriculum vitae
The list of productions in this cv is a limited selection. Involvement with contemporary dance is not listed which includes collaborations with choreographer Per Jonsson, choreographer/dancer Irene Hultman and choreographer/dancer Nathalie Ruiz. Composer of chamber music, film music and electro acoustic music is not taken up. Performing improvised music with groups and musicians like Lokomotiv Konkret, Tvist, Sten Sandell, David Stackenäs, Peter Söderberg and a varieties of ensembles in Sweden, Finland, US and Holland, is not listed. Different video art pieces are not mentioned, among them a series of videos based on texts by August Strindberg (2006-2007). Main professor at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, was professor Sven David Sandström, supervising/teaching composition, interpretation and improvisation; final paper at the Department of Theater Science, University of Stockholm, was on Eugeneo Barba and Theatre Anthropology, supervised by professor Willmar Sauter; Conducting education at SMI/Stockholm focused on analysis, late 19th and 20th century repertoire. Courses included in the PhD education are philosophy, performance studies, gender studies, rhetoric and pedagogy. I am the founder of Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art which is an independent group of theater artists, writers, musicians and dramaturges’ working with contemporary sound and stage art. The collective has as an ambition to present new drama, music theater, opera and sound art, readings, concerts, art performances, radio shows and combinations thereof, at different venues and for different age groups. Among the writers and composers represented in the work of the collective are Mathias Spahlinger, Öyvind Fahlström, Erik Beckman, Kristina Lugn, Tora von Platen, John Cage, Ivo Nilsson, Italo Calvino. My work as artistic director and producer for record and publishing company Alice Musik Produktion, should be understood as introducer of projects. It includes formulating and assigning commissions for original music and texts, production planning/budget planning, recording and editing, chief editor of text, distribution planning/administration, contracting (regulating national/ international copyrights and distribution relations). The repertory that dominates my activities as producer is French, Italian and Spanish early baroque music and American, German and Swedish contemporary music. Composers among these are Nicolaus Vallet, Albert de Rippe, Claude Loyola Allgén, Karl Heinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Nicolaus A Huber, Steve Reich, Alivin Lucier, James Tenney. Swedish and international improvised music are also included in the catalogue. The company has produced a series called Poetry&Music where contemporary Swedish composers have been commissioned to collaborate with poets. The series so far includes Eva Ström/Akoz Rozmann, Stig Larsson/Dror Feiler, Jörgen Gassilewski/Sten Sandell, Birgitta Lillpers/Lars Sandberg, and Lars Forssell/Jonas Forssell. Teaching experience includes being responsible (planning, teaching, evaluating) for longer courses, supervision of individual students and series of seminars as well as separate lectures.