Johan Petri

In 2020 Petri was the co-founder of the radio theatre company Radioart, for which he has directed plays by Alice Notley and Gertrude Stein.

Since 2015, teacher and lecturer in directing, theatrical composition, and dramaturgy.

In 1991, he presented his first production at Jordcirkus, Stockholm: On Goodness by Willy Kyrklund. Since then, he has worked on developing performances and new forms for musical theatre and many productions have followed at both well-renowned theatres in Sweden such as Unga Klara, Royal Dramatic Theatre, The House of Dance, and Swedish Radio Theatre, as well as at fringe theatre companies like Teater Pero (Stockholm) and Irondale Ensemble Project (New York City).

Petri is the co-founder of Alice Collective for Sound&Stage Art, a theatre company working with contemporary musical drama in different formats which has produced performances directed by Petri, like plays by Öyvind Fahlström, musical theatre by John Cage, Mathias Spahlinger, and Erik Beckman. Co-founder and producer of record company Alice Musik Produktion since 1989, devoted to early Baroque music, improvised and contemporary music.

Born in Arboga, Sweden, Petri studied saxophone and composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm from 1980 to 1985. As a musician and composer, he was engaged at many Swedish-speaking theatres, including Stockholm, Gävle, Gothenburg, Helsinki, and he also collaborated with different choreographers and dancers like Per Jonsson and Irene Hultman. From 2010 he was a doctoral student at the University of Gothenburg where he concluded his Ph.D. in Directing and Dramaturgy in 2016.

Johan Petri (born 24 April 1959) is a Swedish theatre director, dramatist, and theatre scholar.