A founding constellation that set the company’s transnational DNA.
Institutional context
Independent in form. Institutional in reach.
ACT moves with the agility of an artist-led company and the standing of a long-term cultural platform.
A living artistic network across the Nordics and beyond.
Support context attached to the Seven Gothic Tales cycle.
The present horizon reopens Seven Gothic Tales as a spatial work of passage and atmosphere.
Three ways in
Enter the world of ACT
Through stage work, public dialogue, and the current horizon.
Stories with heat, fracture, and beauty
ACT’s productions move through desire, race, class, memory, migration, and power with a language designed to land emotionally before it explains itself.
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Performance as dialogue, not decoration
The company’s work reaches beyond the stage through encounters, partnerships, and public conversations with audiences, institutions, and cultural networks.
Partners & Funders
Seven Gothic Tales opens a literary world in motion
ACT’s current horizon moves beyond the stage into a transcontinental multisensory work where literature becomes atmosphere, architecture, and public encounter.
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Current horizon
Current Focus
ACT’s present horizon unfolds through Seven Gothic Tales — a transcontinental literary world designed for institutions, readers, and future public installation.
Seven Gothic Tales opens as an immersive literary world.
Seven Gothic Tales opens here as a transcontinental literary world of rooms, thresholds, and living encounters.
Its first public threshold, The Dreamers — From Zanzibar to Milan, offers the concrete entry point: a spatial labyrinth through which institutions, readers, and audiences step into the wider cycle.
Conceived and reimagined by Michael Omoke · Produced by ACT: New Nordic Voices
Institutional route
Supported in part by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Danish Ministry of Culture.
In partnership with Karen Blixen Museum, Rungstedlund, Denmark and the Consulate General of Denmark in New York.
CLASSICS
A selected archive of productions where classics are reopened through migration, race, desire, public speech, and transnational collaboration.
ENTER DOSSIER →Silenced No More
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf was performed in Nairobi, Kisumu, and Mombasa as the creative engine of the Silenced No More project, which reached more than 3,000 people through performance, dialogue, and public engagement.
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ENTER DOSSIER →Miss Julie’s Happy Valley
Michael Omoke’s Miss Julie’s Happy Valley, after August Strindberg, reimagines the classic through colonial Kenya’s Happy Valley world—where class, desire, race, and power collide in a transnational dramatic landscape.
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ENTER DOSSIER →For Colored Girls
On March 8, 2019 — exactly 44 years after its Broadway world premiere — ACT premiered the first Nordic production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf in Helsinki, before later performances in Denmark and Sweden under New Nordic Voices.
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ENTER DOSSIER →An Enemy of the People
Actors from Denmark, Sweden, and Norway came together for the Ballerup, Denmark performance of Arthur Miller’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People.
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ENTER DOSSIER →The Merchant of Venice
ACT’s debut-era staging of Shakespeare enters a modern ceremonial world of law, mercy, desire, and public spectacle — with Shylock, Portia, Antonio, and Bassanio recast through a sharp contemporary theatrical lens.
ENTER DOSSIER →ACT Across Nation & Time
A transnational journey through productions, platforms, exchanges, and cultural milestones from 2016 to 2028. This premium map–timeline reads ACT through both chronology and geography.
Read ACT not as a list of productions, but as a movement between cities, institutions, and artistic thresholds.
2016
Production
The Merchant of Venice
Copenhagen, Denmark
ACT’s founding-era debut and institutional starting point.
2017
Exchange
Share Experience Workshop + Conference
Malmö / Copenhagen
Early intercultural dialogue and collaborative development across borders.
2017
Production
An Enemy of the People
Ballerup, Denmark
A major Nordic classic brought into renewed public conversation.
2018
Platform
New Nordic Voices
Across the Nordics / Iceland
Expansion of ACT’s cross-Nordic cultural framework, including Icelandic cultural exchange.
2019
Production
For Colored Girls
Helsinki / Frederiksberg / Stockholm
A landmark multinational collaboration across Nordic cities.
2021
Production
Miss Julie’s Happy Valley
Copenhagen / Helsinki
A major reinterpretation linking Nordic text and East African imagination.
2021
Development
Miss Julie’s Out of Africa
Copenhagen / Nairobi
Extension of ACT’s transnational dramatic world-building.
2023
Initiative
Silenced No More
Kenya / Denmark / South Africa
Expanded civic and international cultural engagement through theatre and wider African dialogue.
2024
Platform
Nordic Classics Reimagined
Denmark / New York
ACT’s curatorial and reinterpretive framework grows in international visibility.
2026–2028
Expansion
Seven Gothic Tales — Global Project
Denmark / United States / Zanzibar / Kenya
A long-horizon artistic pathway unfolding through installations, spatial works, and transcontinental cultural partnerships across Denmark, the United States, Zanzibar, and Kenya.
2016
The Merchant of Venice
ACT’s founding-era debut and institutional starting point.
About ACT
Denmark’s transnational theatre company and cultural platform.
Founded by Michael Omoke and shaped through a founding period between 26 June 2014 and 29 March 2015, ACT: New Nordic Voices emerged with 30 artists from 21 nationalities forming the organisation’s original founding circle.
What distinguishes ACT in Denmark
ACT: New Nordic Voices stands apart in Denmark not simply as a theatre company, but as the country’s first Black-led, intentionally inclusive transnational cultural platform—one that treats classical theatre and high art as vehicles of cultural diplomacy between nations, rather than as mere stage production.
Its distinction lies in making transculturality structural. With a current reach of 169 artists from 46 countries, ACT represents a rare institutional identity in Denmark.
ACT, in essenceNot “we tour internationally,” but “our artistic body is constituted across borders.”
2014–2015Founding period
30Artists in the original founding circle
21Nationalities represented at founding
Current reach169 artists from 46 countries across the Nordics and beyond
Begin a conversation
For institutions, presenters, embassies, universities, museums, and cultural allies.
ACT welcomes conversations that can become productions, exchanges, commissions, partnerships, salons, and public cultural programmes.
Institutional Contact
A direct line for touring, partnerships, commissions, and cultural dialogue.
- Email artisticdirector@thespians.dk
- Base Copenhagen, Denmark
- Instagram @afro.cosmopolite.thespians
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