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A union/place where people can get together for creation ◾️ The godfather is Naoki Matayoshi (Peace) “It is a coined word combining ‘ennui’ and ‘enjoy’, and has a nuance of having fun, including a state of languor.

Composer / Director, born in Tokyo in 1992. Formed the contemporary pop band “Tokyo Shiokouji” while a student at Tokyo University of the Arts. They attracted attention with their sound that crosses breakbeats and minimal music, and their first album “FACTORY” released in 2017 was described as “a great live band” by New York composer Steve Reich. He also formed the theater company “Nutomic” in 2016. The company's works are based on the question, “What is performance?” and expand the framework of performing arts with scripts and staging using musical backgrounds. He won the “16th AAF Drama Award Grand Prize” for “Sorekara no Machi” (2016) and was nominated for the “66th Kishida Kunio Drama Award” for “Bonny Blues” (2021). He won the “Komaba Agora Directors Competition 2018 Best Director Award” for his direction of a classic play.

Born in 1973. Born in Saitama Prefecture. Graduated from Tama Art University.
Actor and plastic artist. Currently active in TV and stage, as well as drama and radio. Recent works include NTV's “New Airport Occupation,” NHK BS's “Ungiri Nizaemon Final,” and the stage play “Harold and Maude.” In 1999, began working as a sculptor in addition to his acting career. In 2019, he will hold his first overseas solo exhibition “Giri Exhibition Taiwan”; in 2021, he will hold “Hitoshi Katagiri Creative Encyclopedia Exhibition in Commemoration of 20th Anniversary of Clay Art” at Gallery AaMo in Tokyo Dome City.

Playwright / Novelist / President of chelfitsch. Noted for the unique relationship between words and body in his method, he won the 49th Kishida Kunio Drama Award in 2005 for “Five Days in March,” and since 2016 has been writing and directing works for the German public theater repertory on an ongoing basis. In recent years, he has been actively collaborating with artists in various fields, further expanding his activities by directing the opera “Yuzuru” (2021) and writing and directing the Kabuki play “Sakurahime Tojiken” (2023) at Kinoshita Kabuki. As a novelist, he won the 2nd Oe Kenzaburo Prize in 2007 for “The End of the Special Time Allowed to Us” (Shinchosha), and the 35th Mishima Yukio Award and the 64th Kumanichi Literary Award in 2022 for “Broccoli Revolution” (Shinchosha).

Writer / Director / Actor, formed in 2003. In 2012, he won the 30th Kuniko Mukoda Award for his NHK BS drama “Sono to Shussei Sorekara no Koto” (Born to Be Born and After That), In 2013, he won the 57th Kishida Kunio Drama Award for his play “A Woman. In recent years, while actively producing projects, he has developed his own style of playwriting, in which he has continued to write plays based on personal problems that have happened to Iwai himself, such as withdrawal and his father's domestic violence, and has been holding the project “Wareware no moro moro” (Write a terrible story that happened to a participant and turn it into a play) on an ongoing basis throughout the country, transcending generations. He has been holding “Wareware no moro moro,” a project in which “participants write their own terrible stories and turn them into plays. Based on her own experience of spending four years of her teenage years as a social withdrawal, she is also actively involved in lectures and media activities related to social issues such as social withdrawal and domestic violence, as well as working with support groups.

Writer, director and actor. Representative of Hanzoku Yusyo. Born in Yamanashi Prefecture. With his artistic background in film, literature, music, and art, which he has absorbed since childhood, he has created a theatrical world that vividly reflects today's information society, where ethics are changing at an accelerating pace. The company has a broad repertoire that includes "Theatre on the Other Side," which uses online as a creative platform, "Theatre Series for Adults and Children," which can be enjoyed with children, and workshop programs for youth and welfare facilities. He has also expanded his activities overseas, giving performances, international co-productions, and providing plays in Asian countries and North America. As a grantee artist for "ACC 2018," she will study in New York from September 2019 to February 2020. She won the "Bangkok Theatre Festival 2014" Best Playwright Award and Best Production Award for "Juvenile X." He won the 66th "Kishida Kunio Drama Award" for "Banana Flowers Can Be Eaten". He is a Saison Fellow of the Saison Foundation.

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Born in 1992. Scriptwriter / Director / Actor / Plastic artist. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with a degree in sculpture, and formed “Yuumei” in 2015. Recent works include “Heartland” written / directed (68th Kishida Kunio Drama Award), “Curing” written / directed / produced (selected as one of the best five plays of the first half of “The 32nd Yomiuri Theatre Grand Prix Director Award”), and “Terayama Cabaret” script. Also, as a modeling work, he originated “Crystal Handle Faucet Ring” and produced the prototype for a capsule toy.

Born in 1994. Theater writer/choreographer/composer/video director. He is involved in a wide range of live entertainment. He crosses dance, video, music, and theater, and performs at cafes, aquariums, galleries, live houses, and anywhere else he can. He has a varied career that includes the music theater “Jyara Singing, It's Our Birthdays” (writing/directing/music/performance), “Tokyo Kanojo” January issue lounge girls (music), “Bokura no Azareta Asagohan” episodes 4 and 5 (writing/directing), NEWS live tour (choreography assistant/performing dancer), and more.

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An insubstantial gathering consisting of human relationships centered on the playwright “Ryu Motohashi”. The characteristic of their creative process is to seamlessly move between realistic depictions of daily life and the illusion of the subconscious, with a bird's-eye view of what is theater, to create a “young fairy tale” with a uniquely vivid and sparkling atmosphere. His work “Moving Object” won the Grand Prize at the 2009 Hokkaido Drama Awards. Since then, his works “Changing Jobs” and “Nagi” have won the Excellence Award for two consecutive years. He has won the “Hokkaido Drama Award” for three consecutive years.

A Tokyo-based theater group that has been active since 2007. The group looks at the boundaries between reality and storytelling, and questions their location by moving back and forth between them. The creation of stories about life and death, sensation and language, collective society, family, etc., starts with the subject of interest each time, and aims further afield to access universal "questions. With its unique direction that combines elements such as text, photographs, color, light, and shadow projected on the stage with actors, and a strong script that shakes the audience's sense of ethics, the company has performed and co-produced many productions in Asian countries and North America. Winner of the Bangkok Theatre Festival 2014 Best Screenplay Award and Best Production Award for "Juvenile X". He won the 66th Kishida Kunio Drama Award for "Banana Flowers Can Be Eaten".
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