Disney’s The Little Mermaid, ALW’s production of The Sound Of Music), Gorgeous Entertainment (NY), Alkestis by Director Ines Braun and online reading of “Manzana, Waga-Machi ( Manzanar, Our Town)” by Hisashi Inoue. KAORI TAKADA (PRODUCER) Producer for Shiki Theatre Company (Japan. Credits include: Bashira (Dir: Nickson Fong), Maniac (Dir: Carey George Fukunaga), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Moth), Top Girls (Lady Nijo / Kit)
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The web series JapaDori of New York which she created and acted in along with two other actors has been selected into five festivals, and the online reading of Manzana, Waga-Machi ( Manzanar, Our Town) by Hisashi Inoue were watched by over 300 audience members. Recently, Akiko has been active in creating and producing contents as well. She has performed TATE regularly with TATE Hatoryu NY since it was founded in 2014, performing in places such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Japan Society, and Hunter College. After studying acting at UPS Academy in Tokyo, She returned to New York and received her MFA in Acting at the Actors Studio Drama School, and has performed in various productions in both theater and film since then.īesides her fluency in Japanese and English, her special skills include Action and Japanese Sword Fighting which is a form of performing art called TATE. His stage credits also include characters in world-premiere stage adaptations of literary classics such as Yunioshi in Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s on Broadway and Toru in Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle at the Edinburgh Int’l Festival and the Singapore Arts Festival.ĪKIKO FUJIWARA (SOPHIA) Japanese / American bilingual actress based in NYC, who was born in New York, and grew up in Tokyo. He has originated many roles on and off Broadway including Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out (2003 Tony Award for Best Play), A Naked Girl on the Appian Way (costarring with Jill Clayburgh and Matthew Morrison), John Guare’s A Few Stout Individuals, and Julia Cho’s Durango.
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TV and film credits include Marvel’s Runaways, The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, New Amsterdam, Man on a Ledge, 13 Conversations About One Thing, Lisa Picard is Famous, The Thomas Crown Affair, among others. James also has a long resume as an actor. He has also translated over 20 Japanese plays, many of which have been performed and published. James was the conceiver of the theater benefit “SHINSAI: Theaters for Japan” which took place on March 11, 2012, the one-year anniversary of the disasters in Japan, with participation from nearly 100 theaters, internationally. U for the Ma-Yi Theater during the Covid pandemic shutdown.
He has also directed numerous play readings over the years, including an online reading of Clippy and Ms.
JAMES KAZUHIKO YAEGASHI (TRANSLATOR/DIRECTOR) is the son of an American mother and a Japanese father, James Yaegashi was born and raised in Japan. For the stage, James has directed My Friend Has Come for the Asian American Writers Workshop and many plays for the 52nd Street Project Playmaking series.
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