Roba Shimori

Roba Shimori

Born in Sendai, Miyagi Pref., Roba Shimori is a playwright and director. She founded the Fukinkobo (Windy Harp) theater company in 1993. Since then she has responsible for all of the company’s playwriting and directing. She is acclaimed for her diligent research that takes her to all parts of the country and applying her own perspective to craft tightly woven dialogue plays. She is also known for the speedy and drama-savvy spirit and power of her directing. Her diverse subject matter ranges from historical drama, the finance industry and development of vehicles for the disabled to ice hockey.
In 2008, her diptych hg, based on meticulous research to directly confront the issue of the Minamata disease epidemic drew widespread attention from newspapers and other media. In 2010, her play Sousou Kyoshitsu (Funeral Classroom) about the crash of Japan Airlines flight 123 on August 12, 1985 shortlisted in the Tsuruya Namboku Memorial Drama Award. In 2013, her play Kokugo no Jikan (Japanese Language Class) set in Korea during the Japanese colonization era (written by Kiyoshi Ori, directed by Roba Shimori) won the Best Play award of the Yomiuri Drama Awards. In 2016, Shimori was awarded the Individual Award of the Kinokuniya Drama Awards for the play Zanka about a traveling theater troupe that suffered radiation poisoning from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that included the former Takarazuka star Keiko Sonoi (Production: Iwate Arts Center) and the play Insider about the inner workings of the financial world. In 2017, She won the New Artist Award of the 2017 Minister of Culture and Science Awards for her play Anne’s Days and other works. In 2018, Shimori began activities anew as the unit “serial number” with actor Ryo Tajima. In 2020, she nominated as the Japan Academy Prize for the best screenplays for the movie Newspaper Reporter .

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