Staffan Göthe

Lars Staffan Göthe (born 20 December 1944, in Luleå), is a Swedish playwright, actor and director. He is a professor at Malmö Theatre Academy (Teaterhögskolan i Malmö) at Lund University.

Göthe graduated from the Gothenburg Theatre Academy in 1971.

In 2001, Göthe was awarded the Litteris et Artibus medal.

Plays by Göthe have been translated into English, German, Finnish and Estonian. His collected plays (22 out of the 23 works he had produced in the period 1971-2001) was published in 2003 as Lysande eländen (approx.: "Brilliant Miseries").