Hideo Tsuchida
Hideo Tsuchida
In 1989, Tsuchida formed his theater company B-kyu Practice (now called MONO) and based his activities in Kyoto. Tsuchida has been handling all this company’s writing and directing since 1990. He specializes in situation comedies on the theme of universal human sadness, and when well-matched actors perform together with their own unique intervals and tempo, their dialogue will fill the stage with laughter tinged with pathos. He received the OMS Drama Award for The Happy Lads in 1999 and the 56th Arts Festival Excellence Award for the Running Salmon in 2001. His style tends toward entertainment spectacle, so he is much in demand to write for commercial theaters such as Bungaku-za and Seinen-za, as well as scripts for television dramas. In 2003, he went to the United Kingdom for a year-long overseas study program on for up-and-coming artists administered by the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
