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Circle in the Square Theatre School's primary objective is to train actors and singers for work in professional theatre, film, and television; it utilizes an eclectic curriculum to expose the students to various acting styles, methods, and techniques.
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Guttormsgaard attended secondary school in Oslo, Norway, and had experience as an exchange student in Indiana. She later moved to New York and completed a master of fine arts degree in film directing at Columbia University, with honors, in 2016. She refined the script for Paradise Highwaywhile attending graduate school at Columbia.
Oslo Elsewhere
In 2004, Guttormsgaard and Sarah Cameron Sunde co-founded Oslo Elsewhere, a theatre company known for translating and producing Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse's works in the United States. Guttormsgaard also performed in several plays by Fosse, including the U.S. premiere of SA KA LA (2008) and Night Sings Its Songs (2004), both at 45 Bleecker Street Theater in New York City. A review in The New York Times said the cast in Night Sings Its Songs was "uniformly excellent", noting that "Guttorms...
The Unbound Collective
In addition to her work with Oslo Elsewhere, Guttormsgaard was co-artistic director of The Unbound Collective. Previously known as The Unbound Theater, the company presented works including Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas in 2003, and The Workroom by Jean-Paul Grumberg. In The Workroom, Guttormsgaard played Simone, a Jewish seamstress in post-war Paris whose husband has been deported. By 2009, she was known as Anna Gutto, and wrote and starred in In Security, the company's fifth production.Pl...
Acting
Gutto appeared in the independent film The Contenders (2010), playing the "obnoxious hostess" of a weekend gathering of five friends, one of whom dies off-screen. She appeared in the film Gone with the Woman (Tatt av kvinnen) (2007), directed by Petter Næss.
Directing
Prior to her feature-length film debut, Gutto directed five short films. Her short film The Light Above is about a young sex-trafficking victim who manages to escape. She received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to work on A Lucky Man, which tells the story of a college football player who is raped. Her other short films included Mommy Heist, which was broadcast on France Television's FR3. Gutto co-directed the Norwegian Netflix series Home for Christmas (Hjem til jul) during its...
Gutto won the Zaki Gordon Memorial Award for Excellence in Screenwriting for her feature screenplay Paradise Highway(aka Leila M.). She received the two-year Artist Working Grant from the Norwegian state (Arbeidsstipend for yngre kunstnere fra Statens kunstnerstipend).She received the 2007 Cultural Award from American Scandinavian Society.
CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE THEATRE SCHOOL. An independent non-profit 501 (c)3, began training actors in 1961. We are accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre . We share a busy space with the famed Circle in the Square Theatre.
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Circle in the Square Theatre was founded in 1951 by Theodore Mann, Jose Quintero, Jason Wingreen, Aileen Cramer, Ed Mann, and Emily Stevens. In 1972, Circle moved to its Broadway home on 50th Street – the first new Broadway theatre in fifty years.
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Circle in the Square Theatre was founded in 1951 by Theodore Mann, Jose Quintero, Jason Wingreen, Aileen Cramer, Ed Mann, and Emily Stevens. In 1972, Circle moved to its Broadway home on 50th Street – the first new Broadway theatre in fifty years.
