Lena Ollmark wants you all to have nightmares …

…or rather just dream a little more in general. She thrives the most in the horror genre and she loves the drama and powerful emotions that exist in a really good scary story. The characters she finds the most interesting are often those with some kind of emotional disorder.

Regardless if you’re working with drama, romance, thrill, or humour, an element of horror and fright could make any story come to a head and really ignite”, Lena says. “At the same time, it’s on the borderline between realism and make-believe that there’s a possibility to depict and describe moral and psychological gray areas.”

Lena is an old comic book geek, and when she started writing for a living in the early 90’s, it was exactly what she got to do – write manuscripts for cartoons. She wrote the scripts for everything from Starlet to Swedish MAD. She has always loved to tell stories in pictures.

Since then Lena has written a lot of fiction, mostly for a younger audience. She has published over thirty books, written scripts for film and tv, worked with theatre, sound- and radio plays, and written a libretto. According to her, an author only have themself to blame if they are bored.

FILMOGRAPHY AND MORE

TV

2021 – Sweden’s History, tv-series, SVT, 2 episodes
2021 – The Little Ghost Godfrey (Spöket Laban), tv-series, Art & Bob, episode writer
2009 – Pomos’ Piano (Pomos piano), children series, Swedish Television, episode writer
2004-2005 – Bjorn Bear (Nasse), animated tv-series after Sven Nordqvist’s books, episode writer
2002 – Allram Eest (Allram Eest), children’s program, Swedish Television
2001 – The Silver Train (Silvertåget), horror story for children, Swedish Television
1998 – The Three Friends and Jerry (De tre vännerna och Jerry), animated tv-series created by Magnus Carlsson, Swedish Television

FILM
2014 – Conversation 2.0 – The movie, short movie
2011 – Little Anna and the Tall Man (Lilla Anna och Långa Farbrorn),  ­TV-series/movie after Inger and Lasse Sandberg’s books, Bobfilm, Filmlance and Pennfilm
2006-2009 – The Little Ghost Godfrey (Spöket Laban), 4 animated films for movie theatres on Inger and Lasse Sandberg’s books, Bobfilm, Filmlance and Pennfilm
2002 – The Assistant (Assistenten), short story, Swedish Film Institute

Theatre
2018 – The horrible Story of Little She (Den förskräckliga historien om Lilla Hon), opera for children, Musik i Västernorrland, with composer Magnus Båge.
2014 – A Tribute to Women Pioneers in Blues and Rock’n’Roll, show, Teaterstudio Lederman, Stockholm, script
2012 to 2015 – The Nervous Theatre for Ladies with Anxious Man (Nervösa damteatern med ängslig herre), script

Radio
2019 – The Mystery With Heaven’s gate I (Mysteriet med Heaven’s gate I), podcast, SR
2019 – The Mystery With Heaven’s gate II (Mysteriet med Heaven’s gate I), podcast, SR
2019 – The Mystery With Pixies och Frank Black (Mysteriet med Pixies och Frank Black), podcast, SR
2018 – The Mystery on the Whispering Wind (Mysteriet på Whispering Wind), podcast, SR
2018 – The Mystery With the Grave Spiral (Mysteriet med Gravspiralen), podcast, SR
2017 – We Are Scared (Vi är rädda), radio theatre, The Nervous Theatre for Ladies with Anxious Man

SCREENWRITER PHOTO

Patrik Nilsson

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