Erike (or Ericha) Kirstine Kolstad (c. 1792–14 April 1830), was a Norwegian stage actress.
Kolstad reportedly made her debut at the stage of the carpenters guild in Trondheim.
Strömberg, an actor from Sweden, had the ambition to create native Norwegian actors in a country where theatre until then had been performed only by travelling foreign theatre companies, and his theatre was inaugurated by a ballet performed by the Norwegian dancers Henriette Hansen and Andrine (Randine) Christensen,[1] followed by the play Hustrun, translated from Die deutsche Hausfrau by August von Kotzebue, where the main roles were performed by Kolstad and Poul Jensen Boiflin.
Kolstad and Boiflin are described as the leading actors of the theatre during its very first years.
After these very first years, however, the theatre's staff was mainly composed of Danes until the 1850s.