Oda Fiskum (born 1985 in Trondheim) is a playwright educated at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. She works primarily as a playwright, in Europe and East-Asia. She has written about twenty plays for different formats, including opera, and is translated into a several languages. Fiskum lives in Stockholm where she teaches playwrighting at Biskops-Arnö college. “Systemet” is her debut directing opera.