Takao Hashimoto

Takao Hashimoto

Street performance producer. Judging committee member for the Tokyo Metropolitan Authority’s Heaven Artist Program. Graduated from the Law Dept., Chuo University. Following activities as a music and theater planning and production producer, he participated in the production of the Noge International Street Performance Festival launched in 1986. Served as general producer for the Noge festival from 1989 to ‘95. Since then he has launched a series of large-scale street performance festivals including the “Sancha de Diadogei” festival, the Hitachi International Street Performance Festival, the “Heaven Artist Tokyo” festival and the the Koenji Bikkuri Street Performance Festival.