page_title: Edward af Sillén
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Edward af Sillén / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Edward af Sillén, script writer at Melodifestivalen. Svenska: Edward af Sillén, manusförfattare för Melodifestivalen.
context_page_description: Edward af Sillén is a Swedish screenwriter and director for stage, film and TV. He has translated and directed many highly successful theatre shows including Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, The Drowsy Chaperone, Bull, Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein and Art by Yasmina Reza.
  Af Sillén has worked on the Eurovision Song Contest as a director, commentator and screenwriter, including 2016 where he co-wrote and directed the globally acclaimed interval act "Love, Love, Peace, Peace" with Fredrik Kempe, while also directing and writing for Sweden’s most popular television show Melodifestivalen. Following on from writing his first film Medicinen, his second writing En underbar jävla jul became the biggest Swedish film of 2015. In 2019 he directed En del av mitt hjärta, a major jukebox musical film based the music of Tomas Ledin, lead by Malin Åkerman.
context_section_description: Edward started his career as an actor. Performing both at the Lorensbergsteatern and Stockholm National Theatre. Aged 18, he did stand-up comedy. Hungry to work in the creative side of entertainment and theatre, he knew he could get his foot in the door as an actor.
caption: Edward af Sillén (2009)
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