Mikael Syren is a well-known Swedish director and screenwriter in film, radio and theatre.
He has directed and/or written more than a hundred TV episodes, two feature films, several plays and some 200 radio programmes. Mikael has mainly worked in comedy and feelgood genre, but was also involved in rebooting and modernizing the popular Beck detective series as well as writing several Beck films.
He has written children’s series (Barna Hedenhös) and is currently writing an animated children’s film for cinema.
He has been the main writer of several TV series and head of writers’ room and other writers. At Kvarteret Skatan, Hotell Gyllene Knorren (Christmas calendar) and Sommaren med Släkten, he was a conceptual director.
Kristallen (Swedish TV award/nomination)
The summer with the family nominated for Kristallen (Best Humour Programme 2017, 2018, 2020)
Nominated for Humour Programme of the Year (Childhood Cancer Gala 2017)
Children Hedenhö’s winner Kristallen (Best Children and Youth Programme 2014)
Life in Fagervik nominated for Kristallen (Best Drama 2009)
Separate! nominated for Kristallen (Best Lifestyle Programme 2008)
Kvarteret Skatan nominated for Kristallen (Best Humor Programme 2007)
Nominated for the Rose d’Or in Lucerne in 2005
Winner of Prix Egalia 2004
Ulveson & Herngren nominated for Kristallen (Best Humour Programme 2005)
Nominated for Monte-Carlo Television Festival (2006?)
There has also been an American remake of Ulveson and Herngren; “The Comedians” with Billy Crystal and Josh Gad in the lead roles (FX 2015)
Halfway to Heaven nominated for Crystal (Best Humour Programme 2017)
