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Maja, an Icelandic/Canadian, has been working in theatre for 40 years as an actor, director, playwright, and theatre instructor. She wrote and performs the hit shows, You Fancy Yourself (Dora Award for outstanding performance) and The Cure for Everything (nominated for Dora Award for outstanding play). She toured You Fancy Yourself to the Edinburgh Festival 2009, followed by a tour of England, across Canada, and was invited to Los Angeles to perform at the California International Theatre festival. Playwrights Canada Press publishes
both plays as well as her first play, Midnight Sun, produced in Canada and Iceland. Maja wrote the libretto for the opera Waterfall (composer Norbert Palej) based on an Icelandic legend. It was developed with Tapestry New Opera.Maja was the artistic director of Young People’s Theatre Toronto, interim Artistic Director of Nightwood Theatre 2007-2008, performed as a regular for seven seasons in The Road to Avonlea ( playing Mrs. Potts). She will appear at 4th Line Theatre in 2012 playing the title role of Marie Dressler in the new play, Queen Marie. Maja teaches playwrighting at Humber College, trains actors at Fanshawe College, and gives workshops in vocal and physical techniques. She has also taught and directed at the National Theatre School and University of Toronto. In 2002 she received the George Luscombe Award for Mentorship in the Theatre.
