Trine Holm Thomsen has been director of Aarhus Teater, Denmark's second-largest theatre, since 2015. Among her achievements as director, she has succeeded in strengthening the theatre’s collaboration with other cultural institutions in Denmark and abroad. In 2018, she received Initativprisen, a prestigious award from the association of Danish theatre journalists; more recently, she received a grant from the Wilhelm Hansen Foundation. Thomsen has an MA in dramaturgy and Scandinavian languages and literature from Aarhus University.