A Swedish writer and director working in film and performance, Marcus Lindeen studied directing at the Dramatiska Institut. He made his debut in 2006 with The Regretters, a theatre piece and documentary film. Lindeen’s theatrical works include: The Archive of Unrealized Dreams and Visions (2012) and A Lost Generation (2013), performed at the Swedish Parliament as well as for television. In 2022, he premiered The Trilogy of Identities at Festival d'Automne in Paris, consisting of the plays Orlando et Mikael, Wild Minds, and L'Aventure invisible. Lindeen’s feature documentary film The Raft (2018) has been shown at over fifty festivals and was released as a theatre piece in eleven countries. Additionally, the film’s scenography was exhibited as an art installation at Centre Pompidou. In 2011, Lindeen’s second film Accidentes Gloriosos premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it picked up the prize for best medium-length film. Lindeen lives between Paris and Stockholm and is pursuing a PhD at Stockholm University of the Arts, exploring “The Staged Documentary” through an artistic research project consisting of both film and theatre works. Since December 2021, he has been an associate artist at Piccolo Teatro in Milan and at Le Quai, CDN d'Angers Pays de Loire, along with Marianne Ségol. Together with Ségol, he runs the Paris-based theatre company Wild Minds.