Takeshi Furukawa

Takeshi Furukawa

Born in Tokyo in 1978. Since the play Hero premiered as the second production performed by the theater company Chocolate Cake in 2002, Furukawa has been involved in all of the company’s productions. While he appeared initially as an actor, from the company’s 16th production a day in 2009, he has served as scriptwriter. Since then he has written all of the company’s plays. His weighty works taking historical events and social phenomena as their subjects have won high acclaim, resulting in his also writing an increasing number of works for outside productions in recent years. His 2011 work 1911 was a winner of the Outstanding Drama prize of the Satoh Sakichi Awards. In 2014, his play Ano Kioku no Kiroku (Record of that memory) won the Grand Prix of the THEATRO New Playwright Award and Grand Prix of the sun-mall studio Selection Awards, and in the same year Chiten no Kimi won the Special Jurors Prize of the 21st Yomiuri Drama Awards Grand Prix. In 2016, his play Tsuioku no Ariran won the Outstanding Drama award of the Yomiuri Drama Awards Grand Prix and was nominated for the Tsuruya Namboku Drama Award. Also that year his play Line (Kokkyo) no Mukou (Across the Line (Border)) was nominated as a finalist for the Kishida Drama Awards.

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