Miyuki Ikuta

Photo: Maiko Miyagawa

Miyuki Ikuta

The director Miyuki Ikuta was born in Osaka. She graduated from the Graduate School of Music at Tokyo University of the Arts, entering the Bungakuza Actors Institute in 2011 and becoming a full member in 2016. The same year, she went to Germany on a language study scholarship with the Goethe Institut Culture Program. In 2017, she directed her first play for Bungakuza, Hato ni Mizu o Yaru (Bungakuza Atelier no Kai), followed by The Last Fire in 2018 and Girls in Crisis in 2020. She also began working as a member of the theater group Riseiteki-na-Henzentachi in 2018. In 2023, Ikuta won Best Director at the Yomiuri Theater Awards for her Palestinian Theater Performance Series Prisoners of the Occupation (Theatre Office Natori), Naval Encounter (Riseiteki-na-Henzintachi), and Butcher (Theatre Office Natori), and also won the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists for Prisoners of the Occupation, Anatomy of a Suicide (Bungakuza Atelier no Kai) and more. (Updated July 2024)