UNGA DRAMATEN INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL WRITING RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Are you interested in writing for children and young people?
If so, please apply to our writing residency.

Unga Dramaten is part of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and exists to create performing art for children and young people between the ages of 3–16. We strive to make brave, innovative and generous art that puts children at the forefront of the experience. We believe that high quality performing art is important at all stages of life and aim to present newly written works to our audiences.

Unga Dramaten wants to act as a greenhouse for emerging artists, but also to make room for experienced artists to further develop their artistry. We aim for this Residency to act as a platform where new meetings, exchanges and artistic exploration can take place.

The Writing Residency for young audiences launched in 2023 and is aimed at professionals working within the performing arts or academia who want to explore an idea, question or theme for children and young people aged 3–16 years old.

The residency takes place May 13th – June 10th 2025.

WHAT WE OFFER

• A 4-week long residency at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm
• Access to an apartment during the entire period (international residency only)
• A travel budget of 10 000 SEK (international residency only)
• An introduction to the theatre and our ways of working
• An office space, to be shared with the other participant
• Meetings with a dramaturg from the theatre, 1-2 times/week
• A reading with actors from the theatre
• The residency participant is expected to be present during the entire period, 13th of May to 10th of June. 

PRIVIOUS RESIDENCY PARTICIPANTS

” My name is Mille Bostedt and for the next three weeks I have a writing residency at Unga Dramaten. I'm writing a play for middle school and want to use the realistic sci-fi genre to explore the theme of transformation. The play is about two thirteen-year-olds who hack evolution and succeed in creating a transhuman luminescent bird, through which they change the view of humanity forever. The play revolts against the limitations that humanity has created for itself and opens up the dream of becoming something else. A longing that grows out of the characters' anger at the world that previous generations have created and from an inner feeling of not fitting into their own body or the conventions expected of that body.”
Mille Bostedt, Sweden 2024

”My name is Alex Gorghe, I am a Romanian playwright and in this residency I am working on a text about a group of young people who believe that the state of the world we live in is so bad that there is no hope in sight. They try to accelerate the end of the world by committing acts of terror.”
Alex Gorghe, Romania 2024