Outdoor TheatrePerformance“Wuthering Heights”

Shuji Onodera

Director, Leader of Company Derashinera. Studied at the Japan Mime Studio. From 1995 to 2006 he was a key member of the mime-based troupe Mizuto Abura. Afterwards he went to France to study under the Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists offered by the Agency forCulturalAffairs, launching Company Derashinera upon his return to Japan. He has attracted attention for his distinctive directing based on mime movement. Onodera’s major directorial works include the Contemporary Noh Theatre Series IX “Taketori”(2018, Theatre Tram, other venues); the international coproduction “TOGE”(2021, Kanagawa Arts Theatre); and “Alice in Wonderland”(2017 /2022, New National Theatre, Tokyo, other venues). He actively engages in performance projects outside the theatre, such as outdoor performances and school tours. He also choregraphs for musicals and plays,and won the 18th Yomiuri TheatreAward Outstanding Staff Award. He was appointedJapan Cultural Envoyby The Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2015. He also handled choreography forTokugawa Ieyasu played by Kinya Kitaoji in the 2021 NHK historical drama television series “Reach Beyond the Blue Sky”(Seiten o Tsuke).

Hairi Katagiri

Actor, born in Tokyo in 1963. While at university she made her stage debut as part of a theatretroupe while working part time as a ticket collector in a movie theatre. She has subsequentlyworked on a wide variety of project including commercials, movies and television drama. Principal stage and screen apperances include “Miren no yurei to kaibutsu –zaha to tsuruga”(“Unfulfilled Ghost and Monster –“Zaha”and" “Tsuruga””) (2021, written and directed by Toshiki Okada); "The Large Crow (Glass), Even" or "Duchamp's Glass"(2016, written by Juichiro Takeuchi/directed by Shuji Onodera); “Kirei〜The Woman Who Met Up With God”(2005, direction and script by MatsuoSuzuki); “Oil”(2003, direction and script by Hideki Noda); “Oh Brother, Oh Sister!”stage and screen versions (2013, 2014); the movie “Hold Me Back”(2020); the movie “Kamome Diner (2006); the TV drama “Chimu-Dondon”(2022); the TV drama “Ama Chan”(2013); the TV drama “Suika”(2003) and many more. She also writes,and has authored the books “Watashi no Matoka”and “Guatemala no Ototo”(Gentosha). Her book of essays demonstrating her love of cinema “Mogiri yo konya mo arigatou”(Kinema Junpo) won her the 82nd Kinema Junpo Best Ten Reader Award.