Tigerstadsteatret was established in 2016 so that all children and young people in Oslo can experience theater that can mean something to them for the rest of their lives.

Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that all children have the right to art and culture. There are more than 145,000 children and young people under the age of 18 living in Oslo. Many of them are not taken to the theatre for various reasons. To meet the needs of the children who are not taken to the theatre, we have developed the Tigerbus, a theatre on wheels that performs outreach and free of charge, with a long-term focus on neighbourhoods with a particularly high proportion of family poverty.

Tigerstadsteatret works close to the ground and is target group-oriented. All our performances are based on meetings with children and young people and their reality. In 2019, we received the Hedda Prize for best performance for young people in collaboration with Oslo Nye Teater, and in 2022 we received the Oslo City Artist Prize. We have also been nominated for the Norwegian Audience Development Award for our work with Tigerbussen.

Everything we do, we do because we believe children deserve relevant and accessible performing arts and we believe that Tigerstadsteatret can contribute to making Oslo the world's best city to grow up in.

Tigerstadsteatret is a non-profit AS that works with the social mission of children's right to art and culture. We receive operating support from the Municipality of Oslo, and seek production funding from public and private funds and foundations, such as BUFDIR, the Norwegian Arts Council, Sparebankstiftelsen DNB, Stilftelsen DAM, Anthonstiftelsen and Bergesenstiftelsen.

Now private companies can also contribute funds to Tigerstadsteatret's ticket fund .

–We dream of Oslo becoming the world's best city to grow up in!

Hilde explains why all children have the right to art and culture in Sommer i P2 (2023). Click here ©NRK

Feature about the Dragon in the Sunday Review, September 15, 2024 ©NRK

Staff

Hilde Brinchmann
Theatre director and general manager
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Director educated at the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm. Hilde has directed for several institutional theatres in Norway and Sweden. For her interactive version of The Wizard of Oz at the Brageteatret she received the Hedda Prize for the year's best children's and youth performance in 2015. She also received the Hedda Prize in 2019 for best performance for children for Mio, min Mio and best performance for youth for Ingenting .

Heidi A. Lundbakk
Production Manager
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Production manager, acting general manager when needed, and tour manager for Tigerbussen. Urbanist and culture enthusiast with a cand.mag. in film and media studies, eleven years of experience in the film industry and a master's degree in property development and management.

Mari Noodt
Dramaturge
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Dramaturg graduated from the University of Copenhagen. Mari has long and broad experience with children and youth work, both from the voluntary sector and the school system. Through an extensive education, she has further specialized in performing arts for children and young people, where she bases much of her work in pedagogy and psychology. Mari has also worked with communications and marketing for Heddadagene, and has previously run and written for the theater criticism website teaterungdom.no

Morten Quist Hommersand
Art director
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Graphic designer and illustrator educated at the Norwegian School of Arts and Crafts (SHKS). In Tilnærmet Lik AS, he has worked for advertising agencies, organizations, and among others, the Labour Party and NRK.

THE BOARD

Suzanne Osten (1944–2024)

Our dear friend, mentor and board member, Suzanne Osten, passed away on October 29, 2024 – at the age of 80. Without Suzanne, Tigerstad Theatre would never have existed. We promise to continue your fight for children and the arts!

Suzanne Osten was a Swedish film and theatre director, and the founder of the legendary theatre UNGA KLARA in Stockholm. Suzanne helped raise the status of children's theatre worldwide and was a passionate advocate for children's rights to the arts. Osten was a professor of directing at the Dramatiska Institutet (now Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola) from 1995–2009. She wrote books, plays and screenplays and received numerous awards for her work around the world.