Victoria Nilsson is a New York City (USA) and Gothenburg (Sweden) based actor and director. She holds an MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School in New York where was trained in the Stanislavsky System and Actors Studio Method.

 

Victoria was born in a small town outside of Gothenburg but was raised abroad and has lived in Luxembourg, Switzerland, London, Spain and the USA.  Before moving to New York, Victoria got her BA in Language and Culture from University College London, UK. She started acting in Valencia, Spain as part of the multi-cultural theatre group Escena Erasmus for a year. With them she found her passion for storytelling and discovered the universal language of the stage.

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Her latest stage credits include The Greater Good (The Actors Studio), Do You Understand Me? (Gothenburg English Studio Theatre), and Terrorism (Columbia University). 

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As a director, her latest productions includeThe Bald Soprano by Ionesco (New York), She Talks to Beethoven by Adrienne Kennedy (New York), Art by Yasmin Reza (New York), and The Bear  by Chekhov (New York).  She was a member of the Playwright Directors Workshop where she workshopped four original plays from 2019-2022.

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Victoria is the founder and artistic director of the new theatre initiative Dramatic Arts Laboratory in Gothenburg, Sweden. 

 

Victoria is a proud Board Member of the International Youth Media Summit (IYMS) since 2018. IYMS is an annual event where young filmmakers from all over the world come together to learn about current global issues and create short films addressing these challenges. 

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Victoria enjoys playing tennis, skiing, snowboarding, swimming, knitting, painting, ballroom dance and playing the ukulele.