Mika Myllyaho

Playwright, Panic

Mika Myllyaho is a prominent director who, after establishing a reputation for numerous highly praised interpretations of modern and classical plays during the last decade, wrote his first stage play Panic (Paniikki) in 2005.

A graduate of the Theatre Academy of Finland in 1999, Mika has mainly worked in two theatres, the Group Theatre (Ryhmäteatteri) and the National Theatre of Finland. Myllyaho took over the artistic directorship of the Group Theatre with writer-director Esa Leskinen in 1998, and in 2002-2006 he worked as a lecturer, teaching directing at the Theatre Academy of Finland. From 1998 to 2000,

Myllyaho directed six plays at the Group Theatre, two of which he helped to write. Among his most praised directions are Kullervo (2001), based on a Finnish legend and written by the nineteenth century poet Aleksis Kivi, and Shakespeare´s Hamlet (2003). For his version of Kullervo, Myllyaho received the “Eino Kalima prize for best direction”. Myllyaho has directed several successful foreign plays with a social agenda, among them those by Bertolt Brecht and Fernando Arrabal.

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