Olof olsson PERFORMS info comedy

Olof Olsson lives in Copenhagen, and is the product of the 1960s charter tourism industry. His Dutch Catholic mother and Swedish protestant agnostic social democrat father met in Mallorca over a Cuba Libre.

In his youth Olof made attempts in photography, journalism, and as a pirate radio DJ. After having studied English, philosophy and translation theory, Olof went to art school at Konstfack in Stockholm and the Royal Academy in Copenhagen.

Olof did his first exhibition in 1992: a fictitious story about a photographer suffering from photomania. Since 2007, Olof performs info comedy — a combination of lecture, comedy, autobiography, and melodrama.

Olof’s first feature-length info comedy Driving the Blues Away, premiered in 2012. In 2016–2018, Olof performed Driving the Blues Away regularly in his Copenhagen one-room apartment (with an audience capacity of twelve), constantly fine-tuning the script. The audience got a two-hour performance and two cocktails for fifty Danish kroner. By early 2020, Driving the Blues Away had been performed 122 times in 19 countries.

Olof’s second feature-length info comedy, Driving the Doubts Away, premiered in 2023, after three years of script development. The script continues to be revised and improved.

Driving the Doubts Away is the first part of a trilogy about Olof’s first year in art school. The trilogy will be completed in the year 2030.