About me

for further use

Freja Hallberg doesn’t write plays. She scores them.

Her works lives where performance meets philosophy and politics – raw, emotionally precise, and formally unexpected. Her pieces don’t follow a narrative arc. They follow rhythm. Rupture. Repetition.

She writes not for a protagonist, but for a polyphony. Not for a message, but for a shared space. Not for a voice, but for a choir.

Hallberg founded PotatoPotato, co-leads the international platform SWEETS, and runs KONTRÄR – a subscription-based stage for radical performance in Stockholm.
For two decades, she has not only created new work – but built the conditions for it to exist.

Her practice is entering a new international phase. In 2025 she premieres Art and Money in Belgrade, a Swedish–Serbian co-production. In 2026 she will open Rathaus in Stockholm before it tours internationally, and present Guided Tour Without Objects in Pesaro, Italy. Further collaborations with leading theatres and festivals across Europe are underway.

Hallberg’s artistry extends beyond the stage – into systems:
co-productions, platforms, policy reform.
Because artistic freedom doesn’t just need talent.
It needs infrastructure.

Her performances often begin with something disarmingly simple – a stack of receipts, a wedding between strangers, a long-forgotten apology – and unravel into dense, absurd, sometimes devastating worlds.

They are often funny. Sometimes brutal. Always honest.

She doesn’t explain. She lets the difficult stay in the room.

She’s not here to be remembered.

She’s here to shake.