Randi Lindholm Hansen

Randi Lindholm Hansen (b. 1990) is a Danish script and prose writer. With more than ten years of international writing experience, her work includes writing for screen, stage, audio and short form prose. Randi’s practice is bilingual, genre transcending and principally collaborative, and she is a proud co-founder of the artist collectives Bureau for Listening and AWFUL. Randi holds an MA in Scriptwriting from the prestigious London school Goldsmiths and is currently part of the alternative Danish film school 18Frames. 

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Randi writes to generate empathy in an apathetic world. Her work is anchored in the assertion that it is impossible to hate anyone whose story you know. Randi explores mundanity from a feminist point of view. Her work demonstrates a curious fascination with the intimate and peculiar and often centres around themes of belonging, loneliness and imperfection. Randi celebrates the poetry of unlikely connections and she insists on the small, the fragile, and  the seemingly insignificant. In Randi’s storyworld, comedy and drama are inextricably intertwined. She uses comedy to deflate power structures and disclose hypocrisy and injustice. There is undeniable humour in the mundane, in the human foolishness and inadequacy, and Randi has no desire to distance herself from the deadpan nature of existence itself. 

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​​Listening plays a foundational part in Randi’s writing, and she considers listening a way to exist in the world, privately and professionally. A way of orientation. Despite her love of text, Randi never felt like she needed a lot of words to express herself, in life and in writing. Both her scripts and short form prose is a reflection of this. There is a particular attentiveness that comes from listening, a kindness and generosity that is integral to Randi’s writing.