Unnur Elizabeth
Unnur Elísabet Gunnarsdóttir is a director, choreographer, performance creator and performer.
Unnur Elísabet has worked in a number of projects with the Icelandic Dance Company, Leikfélag Reykjavíkur, RÚV and independently. Works include: I volunteer (series 1-4), This Conversation is Missing a Point, Vivid, Mamma Mia, Billy Elliot, Walking mad, Ótta, Minus 16, Screensaver and Mary Poppins. Among the latest projects, Unnur Elísabet directed the show Them with Spindrift Theater and Iceland´s contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with Systur. In addition to directing five acts in the qualifiers for Iceland´s Eurovision entry.
She has received numerous nominations for Gríman and has won numerous international awards, including the Reykjavik Fringe Festival and the Gothenburg Fringe Festival.
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She acts, dances and sings her way through her fear and uses music to climb the scariest mountains.
Skíthrædd is a tragicomic autobiographical musical by Unnur Elisabet, who shares personal stories from her life.
Unnur shows how life's challenges, whether they are related to physical ailments, anxiety or life-inhibiting fear, are not insurmountable. Unnur takes it all the way and shows that if you can turn a life-limiting fear into a Broadway number, anything is possible. She acts, dances and sings her way through her fear and uses music to climb the scariest mountains.
With her on stage are Annalísa Hermannsdóttir and Einar Lövdahl Gunnlaugsson. The music director is Halldór Eldjárn. The show is directed by Katrín Halldóra Sigurðardóttir.
