OUTI IKONEN

Outi is a freelance actress based in Helsinki. She has worked in theatre, voice work and film for almost 20 years.

Her theatre credits include e.g. Finnish National Theatre, Turku City Theatre, Stockholm City Theatre and Rovaniemi Theatre in Lapland. She has also worked in a smaller theatre group in Valtimo’s Theatre and been part of the group that won the Thalia-award in The best play of the year category in 2019. The play was called Syklit and it was about menstruation and shame in women's life.

She has also performed in a number of films, TV series, music videos and commercials.

Last six years Outi has worked with improvisation with focus on long form, full-length plays. She co-founded Vendetta, a feminist improvisational theatre, with which she created several feminist plays that interrogated female roles and female representation in society.

As a feminist, Outi wants to keep developing female roles in theatre tradition towards more equality and diversity.

Outi graduated from Turku Academy of Arts in 2008 in performing arts and circus. She also studied acting in Theatre Academy in Helsinki and through various courses for professional actors in Finland, Sweden and Estonia.

Because of her circus and dance background she is really interested in physical theatre and loves to put her body, soul and mind in her artistic work.

outi.anar at gmail.com