Tsukasa Nakagoshi

Tsukasa Nakagoshi

Born in 1965, Nakagoshi majored in stage art at Osaka University of the Arts. He made his debut as a stage art designer in 1987 with the NINAGAWA STUDIO production of Niji no Bacteria . Since then, he has designed the stage art for many plays directed by Yukio Ninagawa (see the accompanying table). Representative works in recent years include the stage art for Hisashi Inoue ’s Musashi (2009) , Haruki Murakami’s Umibe no Kafka (Kafka on the Shore) (2012), Shakespeare’s Henry IV (2013), Kunio Shimizu’s Karasu-yo, Oretachi wa Tama wo Komeru (Ravens, We Shall Load Bullets) (2013), Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2014), Tomohiro Maekawa ’s Taiyo 2068 (2014) and others. He has been a winner of the Best Stage Staff Award of the Yomiuri Theater Grand Prix in 1995, 2005 and 2006.