Beisik Bitch // Nanna Gunnars 

Iceland University of the Arts

Graduation Festival 2026

MA Performing Arts

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The basic bitch. Who is she? How does she behave? What kind of conversations does she have? What’s her environment like? Does anyone take her seriously?

Is she perhaps desperately, hilariously, absurdly trying not to be basic? Or is that exactly what she wants, to be as basic as possible in order to fit in?

Nanna Gunnars has been investigating the concept “basic bitch” and will share her findings live with the audience. She digs into staging “the self” and questions the expected behaviour of women in a contemporary, Western, individualistic society like Iceland where women are free to behave however they want - aren't they?

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Bio: Nanna Gunnars (she/her) is a performer and producer. She graduated with BA (Hons) in European Theatre Arts from Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance in London 2012 and has since been performing on stage, working as a voiceover artist and an event producer. Nanna is one half of the creative studio Huldufugl, which fuses theatre with new technology. Huldufugl has created performances in VR; the multi-awarded Kassinn (A Box in the Desert) and Parallel People that was performed in the National Theatre. Huldufugl recently released the first Icelandic film in VR, Fallax.

Nanna also founded the RVK Fringe Festival, and was its artistic director 2018-2022.

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Performers:

Nanna Gunnars

Tinna Þorvalds Önnudóttir

Performer in video:

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Lighting and sound design:

Owen Hindley

Script:

Nanna Gunnars supervised the script but it was created through a devising process with Tinna Þorvalds Önnudóttir, Bergdís Júlía Jóhannsdóttir and Owen Hindley.

Mentor:

Alfrún Örnólfsdóttir

Thanks:

Brogan Davison

Bryndís Ósk Th. Ingvarsdóttir

Gigja Sara Bjornsson

Hrefna Lind Lárusdóttir

Saga Kjerulf Sigurðardóttir

Sepideh Safyari Chohragh

Steinunn Knútsdottir

Tjarnarbío

GOSH

Nathan.is

My classmates in the MA programme: Anastina, Bergdís Júlía, Linda, Nonni and Simon

Thank you to my awesome friends, colleagues, and family members for inspiration.

When:

28.01.2026 from 20:00-21:00 – Q&A

29.01.2026 from 18:00-19:00

29.01.2026 from 21:00-22:00

Where:

Big Black Box, L223 – Laugarnesvegur 91, 105 Reykjavík.

Entrance from below the house, from the concrete parking lot, door closest to Sæbraut.

Wheelchair access through the second floor backdoor.