ABOUT

Meimi Taipale (born 1989) is a freelance Theater director and a writer in Finland and Sweden. She has completed her master studies in International Performing Arts at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts (2019). She also holds a bachelor in social sciences from University of Helsinki (2015).

Meimi represents a Sweden Finn minority in Sweden and her theatre is strongly dealing with themes concerning identity, multilingualism and social policy. She is currently examining the potential of multilingualism in a dramatic work. How it not only reflects the multilingual society we live in, but also has a dramaturgical function where translanguaging and code-switching are used as a method. How multilingual people uses language and code-switches is not seen or heard on our theater stages. By creating new stories, new identity formations are made visible. By providing space and including different experiences, Meimi hopes to increase the understanding of multilingual, cultural and social identities. The themes that motivates Meimi are identity, home and alienation. Not a physical home that creates a feeling of home, but a community and a context.
“I want to look at what it is that creates this context”.

Besides theatre work, Meimi is also working within the radio. Past projects has been as a presenter and dramaturg in a Sweden Finn program called Popula in Swedish Radio P4 & Sveriges Radio Finska. In her free time she likes to take snapshots of her surrounding world. One of her photos has been shown in a gallery called “Phoneography” at The Finnish Museum of Photography (2014).

While active at a youth theatre Ilves-Teatteri, her stage work “Invasion!” (2016) by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, has won awards and been touring in theatre festivals in Finland, Estonia, Germany and Belgium. Invasion! represented Europe as the opening show in an international theatre festival, Theaterwelten, in Germany 2019.

Meimi is always interested in new projects within the performing arts field. Feel free to contact Meimi for more information.