Vidar Sandem

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Summary

Vidar Sandem is a Norwegian actor, playwright, and theatre director whose stage and screen career includes roles in Orions belte, Adjø solidaritet, and Is-slottet. As director of Det Norske Teatret from 1997 to 2010, he backed new Norwegian and Nordic writing and launched the multicultural Open Scene project. He publicly said minority groups had been underrepresented on Norwegian stages and that a Nynorsk theatre should make room for other minorities. No public party or campaign activity is on record.