Mini-bio for Siri:

Siri Senje is a screenwriter, dramaturg, stage director and practice-based researcher. She teaches screenwriting and carries out artistic research at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences, where she was instrumental in building up the widely recognized Bachelor in Screenwriting between 2016-2021. In 2023, Siri´s latest artistic research project, Writing the Writer, was granted major funding from the national Norwegian Artistic Research program. The project was launched in September 2023 and will run for three years , with expected completion in September  2026.  More info under Writing the Writer.

Siri has written for theatre, film and television, she has published several books of drama and two books for adolescents. Her practice-based screenwriting research has been published in the Journal of Screenwriting, Norwegian Media Journal (Norsk Medietidsskrift), and Rushprint. She has also written a blog on scriptwriting for Rushprint. Previously, she has held positions as gatekeeper/script advisor at the Norwegian Film Institute (NFI), curator/dramaturg at Norwegian Center for New Playwriting. (Dramatikkens Hus),initiator/head of the Norwegian Drama Festival (Norsk Dramatikkfestival), and resident director at The National Stage (Den Nationale Scene) in Bergen and Rogaland Theatre in Stavanger. She has lectured and taught courses in a number of other Norwegian institutions, such as The Norwegian film school, Oslo Metropolitan University, and the National Oslo Academy of the Arts (KHiO).

Siri completed her doctoral work in the Norwegian Fellowship Program for Artistic research at the Norwegian film school in 2013 with the project Imagining for the Screen – the original screenplay as poiesis. Her current research interests are in creative methodologies and screenplay development. Siri also holds an MFA in stage directing and has staged more than thirty productions for several Norwegian residential theatres.  In 2020 Siri was appointed “Educator of Merit” at Kristiania for her innovative pedagogical work. In 2023 she was awarded the prize “Artistic Researcher of the Year” by her college.