Takuya Yokoyama
Takuya Yokoyama
Born January 21, 1977 in Osaka, Japan. Yokoyama is a playwright, director and leader of the theater company iaku. With a discerning eye for observation and research, he is skilled at creating conversational plays that make entertainment out of other people’s arguments. As an advocate of “plays that are hard to wear out,” he actively tours restaged productions of his works to cities around the country. His company’s inaugural play Hito no Ki mo Shiranai de continues to be performed somewhere in Japan virtually every year, and his iaku company performances alone total have been performed on 70 stages in 13 cities (as of 2018). Yokoyama is a member of the Japan Playwrights Association (Management committee member for the Kansai Branch) and a member of the Quark No Kai. He is a 5th term graduate of the Itami So-ryu Shijuku. Awards include: the New Playwright Drama Award of the 15th Japan Playwrights Association Awards for Edaniku (2009); the 1st Sendai Short Play Award for Hito no Ki mo Shiranai de (2013); the 2017 Suita City Award for Meritorious Cultural Achievement (2017); the 72nd Agency for Cultural Affairs Arts Festival New Artists Award (Kansai) for the script for Haitsuburi ga Tobunowo (Script 2017); the 54th Osaka Cultural Festival Awards Honorable Mention Award for the results of Shuku-shuku to Unshin and Haitsuburi ga Tobunowo (2017).
