Ellen Nyman

B. 1971 in Eritrea. Brought up in Stockholm. Lives in Copenhagen.

Trained at the Actor’s School in Århus, Denmark.

Ellen Nyman works as an actress in theatre, television and film. Parallel to her acting career, Ellen runs a political project entitled SPACECAMPAIGN which has received large attention. The project questions common prejudices and evaluations, and uses strategies as exhibitions, performances, lectures as well as marketing material, like printed T-shirts, buttons, posters and stickers. SPACECAMPAIGN also stages situations with a high media appeal in order to displace stereotypes and introduce new images. The aim is to nuance the mass medial conceptions of, for instance, ethnic minorities./LARM

http://www.minority-report.dk/dansk/deltagere/ellen_nyman_spacecampaign.html