Tore Vagn Lid (born 1973) is a Norwegian theatre director, playwright and musician, serving as artistic director of Transiteatret-Bergen. He was born in Bergen.
He earned a PhD from the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Germany. He has both directed and written a number of award-winning performances, including Walk Cat, Walk! (2002), Esse est precipi (2006) and Polyphonia (2007).
He was awarded the Hedda Award (category "Project of the year") in 2008 for his direction of the play Mann=Mann, a cooperation with Rogaland Teater.[1] His play Operasjon Almenrausch, based on the World War II Operation Almenrausch, was first performed at Agder Teater in October 2008.[2] In 2009 he received the Hedda Award in the category "Event of the year" for this play.[3]
He was selected to the program "Young directors project" for the Salzburg Festival 2008 with his staging of Brecht/Eislers play The Measures Taken (in German: Die Maßnahme). Central in what is seen as a new political turn in the contemporary Norwegian theater. Has also written numerous articles, especially focusing on the relationship between theater and music, musicdramaturgy and musical strategies for theater directing. The theater suite Elephant Stories (performed at the Bergen International Festival and at The Festival for contemporary theater at the National Theater, Oslo 2009) is an audio-visual confrontation between the theater room and a "new naturalism" represented by the new neuro-sciences. His last production is a Norwegian firstperformance and musical adaption of Gerhart Hauptmanns Before Sunrise (Vor Sonnenaufgang) at "Den Nationale Scene" during the Bergen International Festival 2011, following up the critical discussion about biologism, and using Hauptmanns naturalistic piece (1889) as a prism towards an upcoming new naturalism.
In October 2011 Lids book on music theatre and dramaturgy "Gegenseitige Verfremdungen" was published at Peter Lang Verlag (Frankfurt)[4]