Peer Gynt Prize Peer Gynt Prize The Peer Gynt Prize or the Peer Gynt Award ("Årets Peer Gynt" or "Per Gynt-prisen") is a private Norwegian prize presented annually by the private commercial company "Peer Gynt AS" during the Peer Gynt Festival, also organised by the same company. The Peer Gynt Prize is named after the main character in "Peer Gynt" (1867), a five-act play in verse by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. The prize is awarded to people or institutions who has marked themselves in a positive way nationally and internationally. However, the prize has received criticism for misrepresenting the Peer Gynt character, who
Jan Eliasberg first woman to direct Michael Mann's "Crime Story," as well as "Wiseguy." Her other television directing credits include multiple episodes of Nashville, The Magicians, Blue Bloods, NCIS;Los Angeles, Parenthood, Criminal Minds, 21 Jump Street", "Dawson's Creek", "Sisters" (also a producer and writer), "Early Edition", "Party of Five", among many other notable series. She was fired from directing "How I Got into College" only five days into filming. She has directing such plays as "Spring Awakening", "Peer Gynt", "Hedda Gabler", "The Threepenny Opera", the American premiere of Howard Brenton's "Sore Throats" and "The Importance of Being Earnest". In 1991, Eliasberg married