Mari Lotherington

Bio

Mari Lotherington is a set and costume designer working primarily with stage performance. Her artistic practice is based on collaborative processes through which she can design for the desired theme, format and audience which varies from project to project. She also branches out to exhibition design and film work on occasion. In 2022 she designed her first large scale interactive sensorial exhibition, Who Are You in a World on Fire? at the Arctic University Museum of Norway. The exhibition continues to receive great reviews from critics and audiences.

Although Lotherington is based in Oslo, she has an international connection having lived several years abroad in the USA, England and France. She has a bachelors degree in Theatre and Performance Design from Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, graduating in 2013, and a two year Masters in Theatre, specialising in scenography, from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, graduating in 2017. In 2012 she did her work placement at Die Staatstheater Stuttgart in Germany under the acclaimed scenographer Katrin Nottrodt.

In 2022 the play Utvik Senior by Rimfrost Productions won the “Årets Hedda” prestige prize at the Norwegian Hedda Awards. The play was also nominated for Best Performance and Best Dramatic Text by Nina Wester who also directed the show. Lotherington designed set and costumes for Utvik Senior, which were an integral part of the storytelling and dramaturgy of the play. The same year Pitbullterje og kampen mot barnevernet by Hålogaland Teater was awarded a nomination for Best Performance for Young Audiences. Lotherington also served as set and costume designer on this production.

The children’s play Tobias og dagen det smalt (Tobias and the day of the explosion) also by Rimfrost Productions and designed by Lotherington, was awarded the Hedda prize for Best Children’s Performance in 2018. The play has toured since, playing over 200 performances and has had a collaboration with Riksteatret.

In addition, Lotherington has received several grants from the Norwegian Arts Council since the beginning of her career in 2013, and in 2013 she won the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Design Prize resulting in her work on the play “Scrappers” at Liverpool Playhouse. In 2017 she was named the Artist Profile for the Arctic Arts Festival, for which she designed several productions.

Work 2020

Å klore seg fast, Hålogaland teater
Set and co-costume designer
Choreographed by Simone Grøtte
Hålogaland teater, Tromsø, Norway

Monster i magen, Brageteatret
Set and costume designer
Directed by Lina Killingdalen
Drammen, Norway

Pitbullterje og kampen mot barnevernet, Hålogaland teater
Set and costume designer
Directed by Morten Røsrud
Tromsø, Norway

LuxTempus, Performance installation
Self initiated project with Mathilde Caeyers and Torbjørn T. Sandnes
Outside, Tromsø, Norway and touring

Work 2019

Underkastelse(r) - eller enden av tunnelen (Submission), Teater Ibsen
Set designer
Directed by Tore Vagn Lid
Skien, Norway (touring)

Märgben, Norrdans
Set design
Choreographed by Simone Grøtte
Härnösand, Sweden (touring)

Sofie og Kathrine, Hålogaland teater/Arctic Arts Festival
Set design
Directed by Ingrid Forthun
Tromsø/Harstad, Norway (touring)
Premiering 24.06.19

Knutsen og Ludvigsen, Turnéteatret i Trøndelag
Set and costume design
Directed by Helena Wik
Verdal, Norway (touring)
Premiering 17.09.19

Bobleplastbarna, Arctic Arts Festival/Silje Solheim Johnsen productions
Set and costume design
Choreographed by Silje Solheim Johnsen
Harstad, Norway
Premiering 27.06.19

Work 2016

Medeaplay, Oslo National Academy for the Arts
Set Designer
Production created as collaboration by MA Theatre

Alaska DEL 1, Oslo National Academy for the Arts
Set and Costume Designer
Production created as collaboration by MA Theatre

Work 2015

Den ene siden, ArtLab residency and Hålogaland Teater and DansIT Trondheim
Set Designer
Choreographer Mari Bø
Tromsø/Trondheim, Norway

La Traviata, The Norwegian National Opera
Design Assistant
Oslo, Norway

Noise Control reproduction / tour, SAND performance festival, Kristiansand and
Arctic Arts Festival, Harstad 
Set and Costume Designer
Co designed with Eirik Vagli Østbye
Choreographers Mari Bø and Silje Solheim Johnsen
Harstad/Kristiansand, Norway

Juleevangeliet, The Musical, Sandvika barne og ungdomsteater
Set and Costume Designer 
Co-Designed with Thale Kvam Olsen
Directors Merete Stuedal and Lisa Smith Walaas

Work 2014

Peer Gynt, The Norwegian National Opera
Design Assistant for Katrin Nottrodt 
Director Sigrid Strøm Reibo

Noise Control, Insomnia Festival
Co- Set designer with Eirik Vagli Østbye
Costume DesignerHanna Tjelmeland Fause
Choreographers Mari Bø and Silje Solheim Johnsen
Tromsø, Norway

Åpen Bar, Radvent, Rådstua Teaterhus
Set and Costume Designer
Choreographer Hanna Tjelmeland Fause
Tromsø, Norway

Ben She, Music Video 
Music by Kohib & Fox
Production Designer 
Collaboration by KANTkollektivet
Tromsø, Norway

Vimsy Violenza, dyrenes skrekk, Polar Park Wildlife Center
Set and Costume Designer
Director Alexander Martinsen
Bardu, Norway

Leo
Set Dresser short film
Director Linn Marie Christensen
Oslo, Norway

Work 2013

Scrappers, Liverpool Playhouse
Set and Costume Designer
Director Matthew Xia
Liverpool, UK

When The Rain Stops Falling, Unity Theatre
Set and Costume Designer
Liverpool, UK

Earthquakes in London, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Costume Designer
Directed by Dan Bird

Work 2012

Ratgeber, Die Staatsteater Stuttgart
Set Design Intern
Set Designer Katrin Nottrodt 
Stuttgart, Germany

Alexander the Great, Hålogaland Teater
Design Assistant for Lawrence Malstaf
Director Jon Tombre
Tromsø, Norway

Ungtblod festivalen
Music Festival
Venue Design
Senja, Norway

When The Rain Stops Falling, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Set Designer
Directed by Gillian Lemon 

Work 2010

Fargelære
Production Designer short film
Director Emilie Blichfeldt
Tromsø, Norway

Tre
Exhibition
Artist / Creator
Dortumnd Bodega
Oslo, Norway