CAMARA LUNDESTAD JOOF Författaren

Camara Lundestad Joof (1988) is a Norwegian-Gambian performance artist, playwright and author.

She is currently The Playwright in Residence at The Norwegian National Theatre and had her first premiere there in 2021 with her play They Must Birth Us or Fuck Us to Love Us. The script won the Hedda Award for Best Stage Text and was nominated for the National Ibsen Award of 2022. The performance was named Subject art magazines Performance of The Year. She is a former house Playwright at Dramatikkens Hus in Oslo, and her debut book Eg snakkar om det heile tida (I Talk About It All The Time) (2018) , an autobiographical essay on racism in Scandinavia  has become part of the high school curriculum in Norway, and is being taught at universities in both Norway, Sweden and the US. It was nominated for The National Library Award in 2022.

In 2019 Joof was appointed as a Council Member of The Norwegian Arts Council, and she’s the head of the committee of performing arts.
In 2008 Joof, together with Liv Hege Skagestad, founded the youth and children’s theatre Den Mangfaldige Scenen (The Multiplicity Stage) in Oslo. In 2020 they were awarded Oslo Municipality’s Honorary Culture Award for their work.
For two years she had monthly column in the national Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet.
Her artistic and political works tend to center around intersectionality, norm critique and queer theory, and decolonialism.