Kana Yamada

Kana Yamada

Born in 1985, Kana Yamada is a playwright, director and actor. She leads the theater company ROJI9. After a career as a promoter for a recording company, she started the company ROJI9 in 2010. Since then she has done the company’s playwriting, direction and selection of music/scripts, as well as acting in its productions. The prominent themes her plays deal with are failure of communication in today’s increasingly diversifying contemporary society and the struggles of people who can’t fully become adults. The production of her play Title, Zekku (Title, Denial, 2013) about a delivery massage/prostitution establishment won Yamada the Sun-Mall Studio Best Directing Award, and her 2014 play Arakawa, God Killer Tune about the regrets of a woman about her past won the Grand Prix of the theater portal site CoRich Performing Arts Festival! 2014, and the Sun-Mall Studio Best Company Award. Yamada has also been active outside her company with projects such as scriptwriting and directing for the film Yoru, Nigeru (At Night, Flee, 2016).

ROJI9
http://www.roji649.com/