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Junnosuke Tada (Director, leader of Tokyo Deathlock)

Born in 1976. Theatre director and leader of theatre/performance unit Tokyo Deathlock. Directly involved in staging diverse works from classic to contemporary drama, dance and performance pieces, with a focus on the personal experience of the individual in modern society. Tada engages in a borderless range of projects based on the collaborative power of theatre, conducting workshops and creative activities with children and people who are not theatre specialists at cultural facilities and educational institutes nationwide, and collaborations with theatre professionals in Korea and Southeast Asia. He was appointed Artistic Director of the Cultural Centre of Fujimi City, KIRARI FUJIMI in 2010, the youngest artistic director to be appointed at a public theatre in Japanese history, serving three terms over nine years until March 2019. He received the 50th The Dong-A Theatre Award from Korea in 2014, the first non-Korean to do so. In 2019 he was Program Director, Performing Arts Division, for the event Culture City of East Asia 2019 Toshima. He is a director at the Seinendan theatre company. Part-time lecturer at Shikoku Gakuin University and Joshibi University of Art and Design.