Asian Performing Arts Camp
In-Tokyo Sharing Session

CHNG Yi Kai – Singapore

Yi Kai (b. 1992) is a theater artist based in Singapore, who aspires to create socially-conscious theater works that extends our capacities as humans and communities. A graduate from Yale-NUS College with a major in Anthropology, his foray into theater began when he completed Singapore Polytechnic's Diploma in Applied Drama and Psychology. His most recent creations include When cloud catches colours (Drama Box), Between Interstices (Islands Time-Based Arts Festival), and With Time (Drama Box, Esplanade).

Sujatro GHOSH – Kolkata (India)

Sujatro (b. 1993) is a Multi Disciplinary Artist-Activist from Kolkata. His practice initiates conversation about social action and political protest. Sujatro’s work combines conceptual and material adventures produced by radical thought around queer rights, diasporic tensions, women rights, climate change, gastro politics and transnational migration through the mediums of film, performance, poetry, sonic installations, fabric works and photography. His works have been a part of Berliner Festspiele, The Whitworth Gallery, Venice Biennale, nGBK Berlin to name a few.

HANAGATA Shin – Kyoto, Tokyo (Japan)

Shin (b. 1995) is a new media artist and performance artist born in Tokyo and based in Kyoto, Japan. He explores the changing boundary between self and other, human and non-human in a capitalist society driven with technology. His major works include "Uber Existence," an "existence agency service" that commodifies the human body as a real avatar, and "still human," which deviates from the norm by moving the position of the eyes. His major Awards include the 25th Japan Media Art Festival, Art Division, New Face Award.

HSUEH Tzu-Chieh – Taipei (Taiwan)

Tzu-Chieh (b. 1994) is a theater director based in Taipei, Taiwan. He has a strong interest in collaborating with various art forms and cultures. Through his work with different mediums, he engages in dialogue with society and explores the contradictions, and conflicts of contemporary life. Using "ethnicity" as a creative approach, he explores contemporary social phenomena through theater. He recently began an experiment to incorporate technology and visual elements into his theater works and applied everyday technological objects to create interactive experiences that discuss the individuality of the majority.

ONUKI Tomomi – Tokyo (Japan), Stuttgart (Germany)

Tomomi (b. 1999) is an architect, performing arts director and documentary videographer based in Tokyo and Stuttgart. studying in Tokyo University of the Arts, Campus Gegenwart and ABK Stuttgart in Germany. The strange sensation she felt in theaters in her teenage days made her interested in the relation between space and human behavior and the body. How do we experience a place? How are we part of there? How are places connected to us and our experiences?

YAMAGUCHI Keiko – Kyoto (Japan)

Kyoto-based actor and theatre maker. In 2011, she started her own theatre group BRDG in order to create performances based on fieldwork and interviews with people living in Kyoto. BRDG focuses on Kyoto as a multicultural city as well as exploring the act of interpreting in performance. Collaborating with Philippine Educational Theatre Association (PETA) and young people in both Japan and the Philippines, she presented a performance “Fureru~Haplos” in February, and live-streamed an online piece “HELLO” in December 2020. As an actor, she appeared in performances of Yukichi Matsumoto, marebito theatre company, shitatame and ricca ricca*festa (Okinawa) and so on. YAMAGUCHI Keiko was an Asia Fellow 2017. She was a participant in the APAF2020 Lab and took part in Asian Performing Arts Camp 2021 and 2022 as co-facilitator. She also works at a community cafe in Kyoto, broadcasting a multilingual radio programme.
https://brdg-ing.tumblr.com

James Harvey ESTRADA – Rizal (The Philippines)

Theater maker, media practitioner, writer, artist-educator. A Filipino artist actively creating in the Asian region interweaving regional stories and transcreations of narrative and expression under transnational collaborations on solidarity, fake news, and human rights. International Forum participant at Theatertreffen 2023 in Germany and co-facilitated the Tokyo Festival Farm 2022 Asian Performing Arts Camp gathering artists to explore the themes of “performing hybridity and prototyping trans time”. Artistic Director of The Scenius Pro. a contemporary performance company based in Manila and devised performances that advocate empowering the Deaf community, HIV stigma reduction, and the plight of Overseas Filipino Workers. Performing arts mentor at the Regional Lead School for the Arts in Angono and lectures at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines on media production and theater arts. Recently awarded by the PUP COC SIKAT AWARDS as PANDEMIC ACHIEVER 2022 for his artistic work amidst the pandemic. Participated in artistic exchange and created works in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and New York.
https://jeymsharbi.wordpress.com

ICHIHARA Satoko

Playwright, director, novelist and Artistic Director of Kinosaki International Arts Center (KIAC). Born in 1988 in Osaka, raised in Fukuoka Japan. Studied theater at J.F. Oberlin University. ICHIHARA Satoko has led the theater company Q since 2011. She writes and directs plays that deal with human behavior, the physiology of the body, and the unease surrounding these themes, using her unique sense of language and physical sensitivity. In 2011, Received the Aichi Arts Foundation Drama Award with the play “Insects.” In 2017, nominated for finalist of 61st Kishida Kunio Playwriting Prize for “Favonia’s Fruitless Fable.” In 2019, she published her first collection of stories, Mamito no tenshi (Mamito’s Angel). In the same year, “The Bacchae−Holstein Milk Cows” based on a Greek tragedy, premiered at Aichi Triennale 2019 and won the 64th Kishida Kunio Playwriting Prize. In 2021, she co-produced “Madama Butterfly” with the Theater Neumarkt (Zurich), which was presented at Zurcher Theater Spektakel , SPIELART Theatre Festival (Munich) and Wiener Festwochen. In 2023, “Yoroboshi: The Weakling” premiered at Theater der Welt 2023 (Frankfurt).

YOKOYAMA Yoshiji

Programmer and chief dramaturg of Tokyo Festival. Dramaturg of SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center, in charge of international exchanges. Programmer of World Theatre Festival Shizuoka. Board member of ON-PAM (Open Network for Performing Arts Managers). Part-time lecturer at Gakushuin University. Born in Chiba, Japan in 1977. Ph. D. in Theatre Studies at l’Université Paris X in 2008. Since 2007, Yoshiji is working for international program of theatre festival, called actually "World Theatre Festival Shizuoka", organized annually in April-May by SPAC-Shizuoka Performing Arts Center. Member of APP (Asian Producers' Platform). Founding member of Dramaturg / Japan. Stayed in NYC as grantee of Asian Cultural Council and visiting scholar at The Segal Theatre Center, CUNY (City University of New York Graduate Center), on 2016.