Lotta Lekvall

CEO of Folkteatern Göteborg, Sweden

Lotta Lekvall is Director/CEO at Folkteatern, a theatre based in Göteborg, Sweden, since 2015. Folkteatern has had an incredible development artisticly, organizationally, with the internal working climate, audience development and ticket sales, strengthened economy and marketing strategies. Folkteatern has had several successes artisticly as well as in audience and critics response. IT’s a pricewinning theatre for the plays Hamlet, Ett drömspel, and Bobby Fischer bor I Pasadena. Folkteatern has also been nominated to the Theatre Critics Price for the development and changes at the theatre and in marketing and communication as well as mentioned in The Guardian (February 8, 2020) for being a high-quality theatre and contributing to the area being chosen as one of the ten coolest neighbourhoods in Europe. Lotta Lekvall has attended the one-year programme Executive Diploma in Organisational Leadership, Oxford University, in 2023, and published the book “Performing Arts Leadership. Challenges in the 21st Century” (2024). She was nominated the twenty-fifth (out of a hundred) most influential persons in the city of Göteborg by the daily Göteborgs-Posten in 2023 for saving the theatre from eviction from the localities in the centre of the city.