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Motoi MiuraChiten
Director
Born in 1973. He graduated from the Toho Gakuen School of Music and then entered Seinendan in 1996, working as assistant director to Oriza Hirata and as a member of staff at the Komaba Agora Gekijo. From 1999 he studied in Paris for 2 years on a government scholarship, learning directing, arts management and artistic directorship under Jacques Blanc. He returned to Japan in 2001 and started his work with his company Chiten, directing Japan premières of plays by Jon Fosse and David Harrower.
He left Seinendan in 2005 and moved to Kyoto. He has been re-creating the 4 masterpieces of Chekhov since 2007 and in the same year he won the Agency of Cultural Affairs New Director Award for his production of "The Cherry Orchard". He has won many other awards. In March 2008 his staging of Philip Glassʼs opera "In the Penal Colony", based on the short story by Franz Kafka, was much acclaimed, and he staged "Coriolanus" at Londonʼs Globe Theatre in 2012 as part of its World Shakespeare Festival.
This is his second time to take part in F/T, having staged "-And Then Mr. Artaud" at F/T10.