Ellen Nyman

{{Short description|Swedish actress, performance artist and theatre director}}

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Ellen Nyman (born 21 December 1971) is a Swedish actress, performance artist and theatre director.{{cite web |url=http://www.malmostadsteater.se/om_malmo_stadsteater/vilka_ar_vi/ensemble/27/ |title=Malmö Stadsteater |publisher=Malmostadsteater.se |accessdate=2012-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301055437/http://www.malmostadsteater.se/om_malmo_stadsteater/vilka_ar_vi/ensemble/27 |archive-date=2013-03-01 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://larm.pbworks.com/w/page/14955946/Ellen%20Nyman |title=larm / Ellen Nyman |publisher=Larm.pbworks.com |date= |accessdate=2012-07-31}}

Nyman was born in Eritrea{{cite web|url=http://www.minority-report.dk/english/deltagere/ellen_nyman.html |title=Minority Report: Challenging Intolerance in Contemporary Denmark - Aarhus Festival 2004 |publisher=Minority-report.dk |date= |accessdate=2012-07-31}} and grew up in Stockholm, Sweden. She attended the Århus Theatre School in Denmark 1993-1997. Since her graduation, she has worked within theater, film, performance art, and television in both Denmark and Sweden. Nyman has performed with The Royal Danish Theatre, The Betty Nansen Theatre, Malmö City Theatre and in Henning Mankell’s play Lampedus and many more.

Parallel to her acting, Nyman runs a political art project called SPACECAMPAIGN, which includes posters and t-shirts, plus activities such as talks, fictitious articles and performance art. The aim is to nuance the mass medial conceptions of, ethnic minorities.[http://interfem.se/konferens/ellen-nyman.aspx ]{{dead link|date=July 2012}}

Nyman has been a regular cast member of several TV-shows such as the Danish dramas At the Faber (season 4) and the 1st season of Forsvar,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638775/|title=Ellen Nyman|publisher=IMDb.com|accessdate=2013-10-30}} the Swedish mini-series Om ett hjärta plus minor roles in crime dramas Wallander and The Bridge.

Today she lives in Stockholm, but resided in Copenhagen for many years. Through her art, she commented on the right-wing populist Danish People's Party in various ways, including singing the Danish National Anthem on election night, while wrapped in a tablecloth from IKEA (to look more like the stereotypical Eritrean woman) to the partys leader Pia Kjaersgaard.{{cite web|url=http://www.foreningenja.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/PW_FOLDER_A4.pdf |title=Privilege Walk/Symposium |publisher=Foreningenja.org |accessdate=2013-10-30}}{{cite web|url=http://www.tidskriftenful.se/mag.php?m=ful&issid=1307016328&text=1307104927 |title=Ful |publisher=Tidskriftenful.se |date= |accessdate=2012-07-31}} The party holds that Denmark is not naturally a country of immigration, and that it has never been so. The party also does not accept a multi-ethnic transformation of Denmark,{{cite web |url=http://www.danskfolkeparti.dk/Principprogram.asp |title=Principprogram |publisher=Dansk Folkeparti |accessdate=2013-10-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530234015/http://www.danskfolkeparti.dk/Principprogram.asp |archivedate=2013-05-30 }} and rejects multiculturalism"."Världens lyckligaste folk". 1 September 2009, TV4.

In 2012, Nyman directed A Performance of Swedish Arms Exports (En föreställning om svensk vapenexport) at Teater Tribunalen. The goal is to initiate a national referendum on Swedish arms export.{{cite news|author=Tweet Malin Axelsson malin.axelsson@svd.se |url=http://www.svd.se/kultur/politiken-ater-i-huvudrollen_6863793.svd |title=Politiken åter i huvudrollen | Kultur | SvD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |language=sv |publisher=Svd.se |date=2012-06-11 |accessdate=2012-07-31}}{{cite web|url=http://teaterstockholm.se/archives/4370 |accessdate=March 8, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301015400/http://teaterstockholm.se/archives/4370/ |archivedate=March 1, 2013 }}