Background for July 30 Reading and Discussion

People Respect Me Now was selected as the best contemporary Swedish play by the International Theater Union and New Nordic Drama in 2016. Hear acclaimed director and playwright Paula Stenström Öhman talk about her process and her play People Respect Me Now. Paula Stenström Öhman received the The Henning Mankell Scholarship of Honor in 2015 and Swedish Ibsen Price in 2016. See background about the topic of the play from a story in The New York Times.