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Patsy Lassbo is a Swedish composer and theatre artist whose work resides in the interspaces between body and machine, music and theatre, representation and dissolution. Their artistic practice primarily moves within the borderlands between experimental composition and contemporary theatre, where they use music, synthetic voice, dramaturgy, scenography, text, video and performance to compose the theatrical machinery itself.
Patsy’s artistic approach is rooted in a queer-embodied and trans*aesthetic listening — a presence and absence — with a particular sensitivity for liminal, contradictory and ambiguous phenomena, moods and states of mind that characterise our contemporary condition. With the concept of composed theatre as a point of departure, they compose the theatrical event itself: the dramaturgical and affective whole of the stage.
For Patsy, theatre is not about representation but about a physical, spiritual and affective state in which the lost distance between things — and between people — can be playfully examined and renegotiated. Lassbo explores the mechanisms that shape our perception, the cognitive overload that permeates our time, and the (empty) spaces this saturation grants us access to.
Between 2022 and 2024, they attended the renowned research-based master programme DAS Theatre in Amsterdam, where they deepened their theatre practice in relation to dissociation, queer rave culture, technology and trans theory. Their graduation piece fugue (2024) was a composed theatre work exploring the dissociative potential of theatre and the speculative possibilities of trans*aesthetics.
Since 2021, Lassbo has run the production platform Dramageddon AB together with Olof Runsten. Patsy works across self-initiated productions, commissioned works and collaborations, in Sweden and internationally. Their artistry is marked by high technical skill, conceptual rigour, and a listening intuition attuned to the breath and fractures of contemporary theatre.
Patsy Lassbo is a member of the Swedish Society of Composers, Fylkingen, and Konstmusiksystrar. They have been awarded grants from institutions such as the Swedish Arts Grants Committee and the Swedish Society of Composers, and have contributed to over 35 professional performing arts productions shown in Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and several other European countries.
CV
Composer and theatre maker.
Member of Fylkingen and Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare.
Part of Sticky Drama and co-owner of Dramageddon AB.
EDUCATION
DAS Theatre, DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam – MA in Theatre, 2022-2024
Stockholm University of the Arts, Stockholm, Sweden — BFA in Sound Design, 2014-2017
SAE Institute, Solna, Sweden — Sound engineering Diploma, 2007-2008
RECIEVED GRANTS
Swedish Society of Composers Grant – 2022
Association of Swedish Composers
Working grant, Theater – 2020 and 2021
The Swedish Arts Council
SELECTED PRODUCTIONS AND WORKS
Magna Paranoia, Ruby Nilsson, Jacob Habinc & Patsy Lassbo, [one, two, three… ∞] by PLX, Malmö — 2025
Composer.
Whispered Dreams, Fariborz Karimi, Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam — 2024
Research, lighting and sound designer.
SEASONS, Olof Runsten, Turteatern, Stockholm — 2024
Composer and sound designer.
Musa Insistente | Insistent Muse, Leandro Souza, Spring Festival Utrecht — 2024
Lighting design.
fugue, DAS Theater, Amsterdam – 2024
Master presentation. Concept, research, composer, lighting designer, scenographer (together with Mika Kastner Johnson), video designer, etc.
Elektronmusikstudion – art, technology and politics, Scenkonstmuseet, Stockholm – 2023
Excerpt from the work Shredder is exhibited in the exhibition at the Performing Arts Museum.
Bergfiktioner by Olof Runsten, Turteatern, Stockholm — 2022
Composer, sound designer and co-set designer.
Lilla Oraklet by Sticky Drama and Audiorama, Stockholm – 2022
Idea, concept and research. Composer, sound and light designer.
HEX by Josefina Björk, Skogen, Gothenburg — 2021
Composer and sound designer.
Sexy Mountain, Agder Teaterlaboratorium, Arendal, Norway — 2021
Artistic lead together with Olof Runsten and Christopher Lloyd. Composer and sound designer.
Putting the garden to sleep by Runsten & Latysheva, Skogen, Gothenburg — 2021
Composer and sound and lighting designer.
The End of Books, Sticky Drama and Audiorama, Stockholm — 2020
Concept, research, production. Composer, sound and lighting designer.
Wanderlust, Olof Runsten, Digital — 2020
Research. Composer, sound and lighting designer.
Alla katter, alla tromber, alla skogar alla bomber, Regionteater Väst, Uddevalla — 2020
Composer and sound designer.
Aftershow by Juli Reinartz, Theatre Thikwa, Berlin — 2019
Composer and sound designer.
Who are these who seem like clouds? By Lassbo & Nilsson, Galleri Delfi, Malmö — 2019
Concept, research. Composer and sound designer.
DET SISTA EPOSET, Turteatern, Stockholm — 2019
Composer and sound designer.
Jaktlaget, Inkonst, Malmö — 2019
Concept, research. Composer, performer, sound and lighting designer.
Bastard of Allegory, Sticky Drama and Audiorama, Stockholm — 2019
Concept, research. Composer, performer, sound and lighting designer.
Krilon, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm — 2018
Composer and sound designer.
B.B. by Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Impulstanz, Vienna — 2018
Composer, musician and sound and lighting designer.
Scene:Bluss Hellmouth Edition, Porsgrunn, Norway — 2018
Artistic lead together with Marie Nikazm Bakken and Fredrik Floen. Composer and sound designer.
You know the depths of the sea, Unga Tur at London Architecture Festival, London — 2018
Sound designer.
Shredder by Ofelia Jarl Ortega, Alexandra Tveit and Patsy Lassbo, MDT, Stockholm — 2018
Research. Composer, sound and lighting designer.
Göra sig av med Eddy, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern Skärholmen — 2017
Composer and sound designer.
A map to get lost, StDH & Backa Teater, Göteborg — 2017
Concept, research. Composer, sound and lighting designer.
“I don’t have a title anymore” by Vanessa Virta, DOCH, Stockholm — 2016
Composer.
Forever by Jarl Ortega & Lassbo, MDT, Stockholm — 2016
Concept, research. Composer, musician, performer, sound and lighting designer.
S.A.D. by Tove Sahlin, Turteatern, Stockholm — 2016
Sound designer.
10HV DJ by Nilsson & Lassbo, Low Rage, Stockholm — 2016
Concept, research. Composer and performer.
Dansösen Käthe Hermann, Fria Teatern, Stockholm — 2014
Sound and lighting designer.
Sthlm International Queer-feminist & Anti-racist Performance Festival, Stockholm — 2013
Organiser, producer and head of tech.