Tantrum was founded in the fall of 2015 by Ohio University’s College of Fine Arts. The theater is a professional company and serves as a training ground providing apprenticeships for students in the School of Theater. The name Tantrum Theater comes from a group of Ohio University graduate students who discovered that one of the collective names for a group of bobcats is a Tantrum. The mascot of Ohio University is the bobcat. Tantrum’s mission is to create and propel forward a resident professional theater company and training conservatory at Ohio University. We seek: -To connect and impact the Athens communities through educational outreach and culturally diverse innovative programming that encompasses multiple theatrical disciplines -To develop new work and offer new points of view on classic stories that have contemporary relevance, and -To offer opportunities for intercultural exchange.