About us

LUMOR is an acclaimed Stockholm based performing arts company, recognized as one of Sweden’s most interesting producers of new drama and contemporary theatre, awarded The Swedish Association of Theatre Critics’ Prize.

LUMOR’s ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Paula Stenström Öhman and Oskar Thunberg have alongside the company’s success been awarded multiple times and work recurrently with a core group of highly reputed performing artists. Together they have developed an aesthetic and rapport unique within the performing art scene.

LUMOR collaborates with a wide network of esteemed theatres all over Sweden, with partners as The Royal Dramatic Theatre and Stockholm City Theatre, and has repeatedly been selected to the National Swedish Performing Arts Biennale. LUMOR is touring regularly nationally and has previously been performing internationally with great reception. LUMOR is currently selected to The Bergman Week and is embarking on further national and international appearances 2024/2025.


PRODUCTIONS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE:
MY INFERNO, AMBULANCE, CONTENT, THE MURDERER YOU SEEK, PEOPLE RESPECT ME NOW

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LUMOR ON TOUR 2025 ENGLISH FOLDER  
LUMOR received Kurt Nylander’s Performing Arts Award 2019 and The Swedish Association of Theatre Critics’ Award 2021. LUMOR’s productions got selected to Swedstage 2015 and 2018, The Swedish ITI’s New Nordic Drama 2016, Tampere Theatre Festival 2017, The National Swedish Biennale for Performing Arts 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022, Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2023 and The Bergman Week 2024.

PAULA STENSTRÖM ÖHMAN is a playwright and director awarded several times, including The City of Stockholm’s Culture Prize, The Swedish Ibsen Award, The Writers Guild of Sweden’s Henning Mankell Playwright Award, The Swedish Authors’ Fund Playwright Grant, The Swedish Academy’s Carl Åkermark Scholarship, Ise Morssing’s Award by The Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film, and The Royal Dramatic Theatre and Daniel Sash’s Playwright Prize. OSKAR THUNBERG is an actor, director and playwright and has been awarded Carl Åkermark’s Performing Arts Scholarship by The Swedish Academy and his play Oxytocin got The Swedish Association of Theatre Critics’ Children & Youth Award.

“Lumor goes from strength to strength with performances in the borderland of social realism and dream. Dark topics are explored with an entertaining twist by direction breathing life into cold reality and by brilliant actors.” – The Swedish Association of Theatre Critic’s Award
Current and upcoming performances

Ambulans

Lumors next scheduled production is “Ambulans” by Paula Stenström Öhman –  a co-production with the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.

More info

On tour

A large part of Lumor’s repertoire of performances, both new and older, are available for touring abroad and nationally.
For more information on repertoire and availability, contact:

Helena Bunker
Producer
helena@lumorteater.se
+ 46 (0) 73 073 0151

Previous performances

Ocean

(2018) by Paula Stenström Öhman

”Five actors – all thoroughly brilliant – encompass at least four roles each in this elegantly carved story that gravitate around the ulcerated unnamable.”

/Expressen

‍“Paula Stenström Öhman is phenomenal at capturing human relations.”

/Svenska Dagbladet

The New Realm

(2018) by Tove Olsson
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“The execution is brilliant, fantastic precision. Pitch perfect.“

/Sveriges Radio

‍”Imaginative, poetical, beautiful, well-made and deeply moving on so many levels.”

/Skånska Dagbladet

People Respect Me Now

(2015) by Paula Stenström Öhman
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“A masterful exhibition of theatre of the highest level that is triggering so many important thoughts within the audience that it should be mandatory to watch.”

/Skånska Dagbladet

‍“Professional, diligent, utterly living and important. Little means, big impact. Respect!”

/Aftonbladet

Materia – I Am Not Linda Lovelace

(2013) by Paula Stenström Öhman
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”Truly unpleasant and delivered with immense intelligence.”

/Svenska Dagbladet

‍”Humanity reduced to matter, a testament on how frighteningly close our well furnished facades are to be swallowed by the wide abyss. Dark, funny and superbly acted.”

/Nummer
‍
Arrow Down

Ocean

(2018) by Paula Stenström Öhman

”Five actors – all thoroughly brilliant – encompass at least four roles each in this elegantly carved story that gravitate around the ulcerated unnamable.”

/Expressen

‍“Paula Stenström Öhman is phenomenal at capturing human relations.”

/Svenska Dagbladet
Arrow Down

Ocean

(2018) by Paula Stenström Öhman

”Five actors – all thoroughly brilliant – encompass at least four roles each in this elegantly carved story that gravitate around the ulcerated unnamable.”

/Expressen

‍“Paula Stenström Öhman is phenomenal at capturing human relations.”

/Svenska Dagbladet
Arrow Down

The New Realm

(2018) by Tove Olsson
‍

“The execution is brilliant, fantastic precision. Pitch perfect.“

/Sveriges Radio

‍”Imaginative, poetical, beautiful, well-made and deeply moving on so many levels.”

/Skånska Dagbladet
Arrow Down

People Respect Me Now

(2015) by Paula Stenström Öhman
‍

“A masterful exhibition of theatre of the highest level that is triggering so many important thoughts within the audience that it should be mandatory to watch.”

/Skånska Dagbladet

‍“Professional, diligent, utterly living and important. Little means, big impact. Respect!”

/Aftonbladet
Arrow Down

Materia – I Am Not Linda Lovelace

(2013) by Paula Stenström Öhman
‍

”Truly unpleasant and delivered with immense intelligence.”

/Svenska Dagbladet

‍”Humanity reduced to matter, a testament on how frighteningly close our well furnished facades are to be swallowed by the wide abyss. Dark, funny and superbly acted.”

/Nummer
‍