TANJA HAUTAKANGAS
TRAINING:
pedagogical studies (20 credits) Teak’s continuing education 2011
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (Stadia) performing arts, performer-oriented line, 2001–2007
Voionmaa college, film acting line 1999–2000
Uusimaa rural secondary school, forestry pt, 1996–1997 Kallio high school, matriculated 1995
Theater genres course 2017, acting director, singing and voice use courses 2001–2014,
TEACHING WORKS IN THEATER FIELD:
The Vantaa Music institute, acting teacher and director, 2020-
Juvenalia, musical theater acting teacher, 2021–2022
Vantaa Adult Education Center, many courses how to make a performance, how to build character in a play
Tuike Expressive Arts school, as a theater director for children, youth and adults 2015–2018
Tikkurila Theater and Circus School, as a teacher of basic theater arts education, extensive curriculum. During the years 2001–2018, I have also been involved in several projects and as a substitute teacher with a monthly salary from 2012–2014.
WORKING WITH PROFESSIONALS:
The Tuike Theater director, Kasmir kissan 9 elämää, premiere 2024
The Tuike Theater director, Petteri Kaniini, premiere 2023
The Tuike Theater as an actor since 2013, productions:
- The Tuike heroes 2022 – play about game characters
- Civil War Contrasts -sensory theater performance 2018 National Museum
- The secrets of Suomenlinna, sensory theater performance 2017
- Underwater, wordless puppet show 2016, visits in spring 2017 to Zagreb, Croatia at the Naj, naj, naj festival and the Kuulas international children’s theater festival.
- Funeral sensory theater performance 2016
- Last turn sokkoteatteriesitys 2015
- Ville and Valle touring children’s theater show 2013
TosiTeatteri ry The Riddle of the Grouse and the Hare Floating Tent, as an actor and director in a traveling children’s theater performance, script, actor: Satu Halonen, composition, actor: Luis Herrero
Directed by Prinsessa Ryysynen, screenplay: Esko Pekka Tiitinen, TosiTeatteri, 2010 – still in the repertoire
Siipisika, direction: Anu Myllyniemi, screenplay: Esko Janhunen, role: Siipisika, 2011–2012, Tikkurilan Teatteri ry
Frog Princess, direction: Seppo Honkonen, role: many small roles, e.g. the prince, the witch Baba Jaga, composition: fairy tale opera by Kaj Chydenius, 2005–2006
SELECTED DIRECTIONS TPO AND ENTHUSIASTS:
The Sound of Music, The Vantaa Music Institute 2024
Midsummer Mights Dream, Adult Education Center 2024
Lumivalko ja Ruusunpuna and Rose Red, The Vantaa Music Institute 2022
Risto Räppääja and freezer-Elvi, Vantaa Music Academy 2021, audition
Ghost mansion, Godfathers of Håkansböle Manor, autumn 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 Flowerhead and Twisted ear, Aulikki Oksanen’s fairy tale dramatized children’s theater performance with music, composition: Arttu Lavi, Tikkurilan Teatterikoulu 2018, first performance Super guineapig and ram Janne, original work: Paula Noronen, dramatization: Kimmo Tähtivirta, music composition: Tuija Rantalainen, musical theater performance Tikkurila Teatterikoulu 2017, premiere
Bog boots, script: Aleksis Kivi Tikkurila Theater School 2017
Saituri’s Christmas– a ghost story about Christmas, original work: Charles Dickens, Tikkurila Theater School 2016 Ella and the jackpot, screenplay: Tikkurila Teatterikoulu 2015
Bursting northern lights Christmas circus, original work: Tikkurila Teatt. and Cirk.koulu 2013 Little Mermaid, script: Tikkurila Teatt. and Cirk.koulu 2012
I was in my school years, script: musical theater performance, Tikkurilan Teat. and Cirk.koulu, 2010 Ronja Rövärintytär, original work: Astrid Lindgren, Teat of Tikkurila. and Cirk.koulu, 2008 Running time, Tikkurila Theater 2008
Heading towards Christmas, a Christmas theater and circus performance of Tuula Korolainen’s poems by Tikkurila Teat. and Cirk.koulu, 2007
Issue, Tikkurilan Teatt. and Sirk.koulu, 2006
Oh powerless, Tikkurila Theater 2005
Stage dances, Old Town Summer Theater 2005
The Fantasticks, Helsinki City Theatre, as Neil Hardwick’s assistant director, 2003
Projects and other work:
Local landscapes- Four seasons autumn 2023- co-operation with Fibo Teatteri Tuike Forum theater performance about bullying autumn 2023 Theater Tuike
Edred, international theater camp welfare leader, 2017,
Edered, international theater camp Finnish representative workshop leader, 2019
Edered, international theater camp welfare leader, 2024
Izola, the Future Telling international welfare leader camp, 2018, 2022
TNL’s golden badge of merit was awarded in 2018, very meaningfully for 30 years of work for the benefit of theater art.
Combo -project, holding dramatic workshops at Tikkurila high school, the purpose of which was to increase young people’s inclusion, well-being and working life skills.
Development project of the Board of Education “Nähdyksi “ –in the academic year 2013-2014 at Tikkurila Theatre. In the project, we consider giving feedback and the importance of evaluation in making theater. Together with three other theater expression instructors and a group of students, we built a performance on these themes, premiered in 05/2014.
Expression-oriented morning activities in the art mornings for children organized by the city of Vantaa, 2012–2015
Baby and toddler circus courses together with circus teacher Annu Nietula, autumn 2011
The curse of tights, direction, co-production with Vantaa School of Fine Arts and Vantaa Children’s Ballet 2003–2004
