Misaki Setoyama
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Misaki Setoyama
Born in Tokyo in 1977, Setoyama graduated from the Waseda University’s School of Political Science and Economics. In 2001, she started the theater company Minamoza, for which she would be the playwright and director. Among her representative plays are Emotional Labor, Mienai Kumo(Invisible Cloud) (original by Gudrun Pausewang), Yubi (Fingers), Familia, and others. In 2016, Setoyama’s play Karera no teki (Their Enemies) won the 23rd Yomiuri Theater Award for Excellent Work. In 2019, Setoyama won the 26th Yomiuri Theater Awards Excellent Director award for her direction of the Office Cottone production of Yoru, Naku, Tori (Birds that Sing at Night) and the Ryuzanji Company production of Watashi, to Senso (Me, and the War). Other representative works include the Office Cottone production of Rachi mo naku Kegare naku (playwright, director), Oreste and Purades (playwright) at Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Djihad at Saitama Next Theater and Ano Dekigoto (The Event) at New National Theatre (directing both). Setoyama has also written the screenplays for Amizu Haruko ha yukuefumei (Japanese Girls Never Die) and River’s Edge Her play THE NETHER won the 27th Yomiuri Theater Award for Excellent Work and Best Director.
In 2020, received the 70th New Face Award of the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts. Setoyama also won the 28th Yomiuri Theater Awards Excellent Director award for her direction of The Contemporary Noh plays / Eudemonics inspired by Noh plays Dojoji and Sumidagawa.
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