Shinichiro Hayashi

Born 1977 in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, Shinichiro Hayashi is a playwright and director. While a student at Kyoto University, he joined in the founding of Misada Produce theater company and began activities in theater. Since then he has been active as a playwright and director for the company under the artist name of Shinichi Misada. From 2004, he studied playwriting under So Kitamura at the Itami So-ryu Private School. In 2007, Hayashi ended his activities with his theater company and began activities anew under his real name, Shinichiro Hayashi, engaging in private productions gathering actors separately for each production under the company name “Kyokuto Taikutsu Dojo.” In his plays he attempts to use a noisy “pointillist” sketch style of depiction of people living in the urban environment in order to create images of floating “contemporary cities.” Among his representative plays are Yoru ni Ukabete Re:Build (2004 premiere / Misada Produce), a play that takes what is apparently the night landscape of Hakodate as its backdrop and presents conversations that arise and fade away in passing gondola cars over the course of several winters; Subway , a play composed of pointillist sketches of urban residents who come aboard the subway cars; and Times , a play that presents manic clippings of contemporary life using the device of coin-parking lots, for which he has been awarded the Grand Prize of the 18th OMS Drama Awards and the Special Mention Award of the 20th OMS Drama Awards. This plat PORTAL was selected as a finalist for the 61st Kishida Drama Awards (2016).

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