Búi Dam

Búi Dam is a director, actor and musician who grew up in the Faroe Islands in a family of actors and musicians. He studied at The Danish National School of Dramatic Art, The London School of Dramatic Art and Musicians Union Music School in Iceland (FIH). He was under the mentorship of American jazz saxophonist John Purcell and Indian poet and playwright H.S Shivaprakash. Búi Dam is the Artistic Director of Det Ferösche Compagnie (dfc.fo). He won the M.A. Jacobsen award in 2009 and 2022, the Geytin film award in 2020 and the Best Actor award at the Winter Film Awards in New York. Currently he´s working on a feature documentary film called DISAPPEARING ACT about an elderly actress (his mother) with severe Alzheimer´s disease set to perform the lead role in Shakespeare´s King Lear.