Gro Katrine Engelstoft

About

A native of Denmark, Gro spent her grade school years in Nuuk, Greenland, growing up among the Inuit in a small town of 10,000 people; an experience which she drew heavily upon for the script of 'Plastic Indian'. At the tender age of thirteen she became part of a writing/producing /broadcast team producing live weekly after-school programming for the Greenlandic National Radio (KNR). Straight out of High School she started interning and working as a production assistant in the Danish film industry, which led to jobs as editor’s assistant on a few feature films. Returning to school she obtained college credits in film studies, photography, and psychology, before switching to Drama School. She moved to New York a few years later and took her American training at HB Studio with the legendary Uta Hagen, and later with the great American director and theater icon, Wynn Handman (American Place Theater). She spent a decade doing NYC theater before writing her first screenplay, and divides her time between Denmark and NYC, writing and acting.