Height: 5’2” (158cm)
Build: petit
Playing Age: 40-50
Ethnicity: Japanese
Eye Colour: dark brown
Hair Colour: black
SKILLS
Language: Japanese (Native), English (RP, Standard American)
Instruments: Piano (Pro level), Accordion, Percussion, Djembe, Recorder, Trumpet (Beginner level)
Singing: Soprano, specialised in folk singing
Dance Skills: Traditional Japanese dance (Nihon Buyo and Kabuki Dance), Butoh (Avant-garde
Japanese movement performance), Contemporary dance
Sports: Swimming, Volleyball, Tennis, Table tennis, Sprinting, Ice skating, Bowling
Other Skills: Choreography, Stage combat, Tai Chi, Puppetry, Devising, Improvisation, Story telling,
Journalist, Writing, Translation
CREDITS
THEATRE includes
TSUNAGU/CONNECT - Lola / Kumiko Mendl (New Earth Theatre)
THE MOON OVER THE CASTLE RUIN (Live Streamed) / Kabuki Dancer / (British Museum)
THE MONKEY & THE CRAB - Kabuki Dancer/Story Teller / Astrid Hilne (V & A Museum, London)
THE ART OF GAMAN - Tomomi / Ailin Connant (Theatre 503/Helen Milne Production)
UNDERGROUND - Alyona Ivanovna / Tristan Sharps (dreamthinkspeak)/BITE (Barbican)
THE JUNGLE BOOK - Raksha/Cobra / Andy Brereton (Watermill Theatre, Newbury)
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM - Titania/Hippolyta / Jonathan Man (Southwark Playhouse)
HANJO AND HELL SCREEN – Tsuyukusa / Kwong Loke (StoneCrabs Theatre)/Oval House
PRINCESS AND THE PEA - Princess/Puppeteer / Joy Haynes (Polka Theatre)
A FEW LITTLE DROPS – Deviser / Paul Davies/Fern Smith (Volcano Theatre)/Theatr Clwyd Cymru, Edinburgh Festival, tour
LEMON ELEGY – Chieko / Tim Baker (Theatr Clwyd Cymru)/Jermyn Street Theatre
THE ELEPHANT VANISHES - exploratory workshop / Simon McBurney (Complicite)
SEA OF SILENCE - Elder/Puppeteer / Guy Holland (Quicksilver Theatre)/Leicester Haymarket
AJAX - Tecmessa / Papacostantinou (Icarus Productions) Jermyn St Theatre
LAST TRAIN TO CHRISTMAS – Shen Teh / Jeremy Stockwell / Leicester Square Theatre
SUPPLIANTS - Suppliant / Elli Papaconstantinou (Gilded Balloon) Edinburgh Festival
BLUEBEARDS CASTLE – Carol Top / Elica Miwa (ICA Theatre/ Amalia Theatre in Greece)
THE DARKNESS IN A WOODEN BELL - Wife / Hoonjae Kim (Greenwich Play House)
THE PRIEST AND HIS LOVE - Priest/Concubine / Amy Jeavons (Horla) Rose and Crown
CAR STORY – Fairy/Musician / Michael Wicherek (Box Clever Theatre)
MARK AND THE MARKED - Mark / Michael Wicherek (Box Clever Theatre)
THE SECRET AGENT - Steve / William Galinsky (Playground Performing Arts Studio)
BOLERO – Solo Movement performance / (Camden People's Theatre)
KAZÉ- WIND - Solo Movement performance / (Grožnjan International Theatre Festival in Croatia)
SIHANOUKVILLE (Reading) - Nay / Eleanor Rhode (Finborough Theatre)
TRADITIONAL JAPANESE DANCE SHOW 1988-1995 / Kinshino Hanayagi (Kinshino Hanayagi Dance Co.)
TV/FILM includes
THE WHEEL OF TIME - Min’s Aunt, Supporting / Santa Harm (Amazon Prime / Sony)
SILENT WITNESS 14 - Ying McCoy, Guest Star/ Sue Tully (BBC)
SPIRIT WARRIORS – Yama, Co-Star / Jon East (CBBC)
REUNITED - Japanese wife, Supporting / Simon Delaney (BBC)
THE LAST ENEMY - T.I.A., Supporting / Ian McDonald (BBC)
JAPANORAMA- Japanese woman, Supporting / Jonathan Ross (BBC)
PANORAMA – Tsunami Victim, Supporting / (BBC)
YUKI - Mrs Ishizaki, Starring / John Beer (Lamb Film/Northern Ireland Film/Belfast Film Festival)
TOKYO JIM – Chambermaid, Starring / Jamie Rafn (HLA/2nd Winner at TCM Classic Shorts)
YOU’RE WELCOME – You-Ri, Lead / Phenia Papadodima (1st Prize at Intl Short Film Festival in Greece)
AFTER THE WORLD ENDED – Chiara, Co-Star / Tony Ukpo (Vertigoheights)
THEATRE OF SOULS – Butterfly, Starring / John Hoye (Operating Productions/Brighton Festival)
TRAINING
LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
Ecole Philippe Gaulier (Le Coq technique)
Traditional Japanese dance (Nihon Buyo and Kabuki dance)
Butoh (avant-garde Japanese movement performance) with Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, Toru Iwashita (Sankaijuku), Carlotta Ikeda, Atsushi Takenouchi
Body Psychotherapy
EDUCATION
MA in Directing, Drama Department at Royal Holloway University of London
BA in Politics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Babel University Professional School of Translation