theatre director
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 Maria Aberg is a theatre director.

Born and raised in the south of Sweden, Maria started her career at the Royal Court Theatre as a Senior Reader, moving on to work as an Assistant Director on several shows before making her debut with F.X. Kroetz’s STALLERHOF at the Southwark Playhouse in 2006.

 Since then, Maria has directed shows at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, the Royal Exchange, Donmar Warehouse and Theatre Royal Bath, amongst others. Internationally she has worked at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Malmö Stadsteater and at the Staatstheater Mainz. 

 She was a judge for the 2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and served on the board of Pentabus Theatre between 2015 and 2019. She is an Associate Artist at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Maria is the Artistic Director of PROJEKT EUROPA, an international theatre company based in the UK making bold, experimental work by migrant theatre makers for local and global audiences.