Yuka Nishimoto

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Yuka Nishimoto

The director Yuka Nishimoto graduated from the Theater Program Director’s Course at Nihon University College of Art. In 2006, she joined the Bungakuza Actors Institute, and became a full member in 2012. Her first play directed at Bungakuza was A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Bungakuza Atelier no Kai) in December 2018. In 2019, she went to Germany on the Agency for Cultural Affairs Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, and spent a year training in Berlin at the Maxim Gorki Theater and Schaubühne. Recent directing work includes A Space of Time (Bungakuza Atelier no Kai), Sick (Theatre Office Natori), Sabiiro no Mokuba (Gekidan Galba), At the Black Lake (Association of Japanese Theatre Companies), and Andorra (Bungakuza Atelier no Kai) (Updated July 2024)