Toshiki Okada

Toshiki Okada

Born in Yokohama in 1973, lives in Kumamoto prefecture. Okada is a playwright and novelist. As founder of the theatrical company chelfitsch, he is the writer and director of the company’s productions. In 2005, he won the 49th Kishida Kunio Drama Award for Five days in March. Since then, he became the focus of attention for his activities both at home and abroad. In 2008, His novel The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed received the 2nd Ōe Kenzaburō Prize. From 2016, he directed repertory works of the Munich Kammerspiele theater company for four seasons. In 2020, his work The Vacuum Cleaner was selected as one of the “ten remarkable productions” by (Berliner) Theatertreffen. In 2020, Okada’s stage adaptation of the Thai novelist Uthis Haemamool’s original novel, titled Pratthana – A Portrait of Possession won the 27th Yomiuri Theater Awards, Selection Committee Special Prize. In 2021, he attempted directing an opera for the first time with Yuzuru. In these ways, Okada continues to expand his range of activities.

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