Biography: Born in 1957 in Stockholm. Grew up in Sweden, Spain and England, then lived mostly in America - also working in Switzerland and Norway - before moving to Northumberland. She was educated at St Martin's School of Art, London, where she studied film and video for a BFA with Malcolm Le Grice, and later at Emerson College, Boston, USA, where she studied playwrighting and directing for a Master of Theatre Arts.