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Guðmundur S. Brynjólfsson

Bio

Guðmundur S. Brynjólfsson was born on the 20th of November in 1964 and grew upp in the town Hella on Vatnsleysuströnd. Guðmundur worked with jawbreakers at the army base stationed at Keflavik Airport. He also worked as surveyor of rubber life boats aswell as general manual work.

Guðmundur finished his high school exam at “Fjölbrautaskóli Suðurnesja” in 1989, finished his bachelors in comparative literature at the University of Iceland in 1993 and his masters in theatre from the Royal Holloway, University of London in 1994. He studied dramaturgy and cultural history at that same school from 1997 till 1999. Guðmundur finished his exam in deacon studies and was consecrated as a deacon on the 18th of November in 2012. That same year he finished his masters in comparative literature from the University of Iceland. Guðmundur is now working towards his doctors in comparative literature at the University of Iceland.

Guðmundur has in the past years taught disciplines at the performing arts department at Iceland Academy of the Arts, taught part-time at the University of Iceland, worked as a deacon and worked for two years as managing director of the Icelandic Bible Society. Guðmundur has written columns for the mass media and worked towards editorial projects in publishing. He has also written scholarly articles and held lectures and for a while wrote theatre critique.

Guðmundur sits the board of the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages since 2014 and was a member of the representative body of the Theatre Museum of Iceland from 2003 till 2006. He was part of the panel of judges for The Icelandic Dramatists Union in 2004 sorting nominations for the Nordic Playwright prize.

Photo of author: Dagur Gunnarsson