Ryo Ikeda
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Ryo Ikeda
Ikeda is a playwright, director, actor, and visual artist born in 1992. He earned his master’s degree from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture, at Tokyo University of the Arts. In 2015, he became a founding member of the creator’s collective yumei. Always passionate about creation, Ikeda’s practice spans writing, directing, acting, sculpture, model-building, stage prop design, and video production. In addition to writing and directing for yumei, he has written for Tensai TV kun (NHK Educational TV) and served as scriptwriter and story planner for the anime Umamusume: Pretty Derby. He also manages the handmade goods shop TOY FUKURO, and is an active capsule toy designer, producing items such as the “Kurisutaru Handoru Suisen Ringu (crystal handle faucet ring)”. His representative works include Ototoi (brothers), Aka (Red), Sugata (Shape), and Heartland, which he wrote and directed (68th Kishida Kunio Drama Award), Yojo (Curing) (32nd Yomiuri Theater Awards Excellent Director Award), for which he served as writer, director, and scenographer, Terayama Cabaret, directed by David Leveaux, starring Shingo Katori, and for which Ikeda wrote the script, as well as Sphere of Sphere, for which he also served as writer, director, and scenographer. (Updated in October 2025)
