Peer Gynt Peer Gynt Peer Gynt (; ) is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen published in 1867. Written in Danish—the common written language of Denmark and Norway in Ibsen's lifetime—it is one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays. Ibsen believed "Per Gynt", the Norwegian fairy tale on which the play is loosely based, to be rooted in fact, and several of the characters are modelled after Ibsen's own family, notably his parents Knud Ibsen and Marichen Altenburg. He was also generally inspired by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's collection of Norwegian fairy tales, published in 1845 ("Huldre-Eventyr
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