FESTIVAL/TOKYO

The five jury members named below will view all performances of the "F/T11 Emerging Artists Program" and award a prize to the outstanding work and artist. The award-winner will then be invited to present his/her work - the award winning performance or another work - at F/T12.

Applications for the "F/T11 Emerging Artists Program" are being accepted from December 14, 2010. At present, we have already received many applications from Japan, Korea, China, Thailand, Indonesia and other Asian countries. The deadline for applications is January 23, 2011, 24:00. For young companies, this program offers the chance to present their work in the frame of a platform that is aiming to raise attention not only in Japan, but also among other Asian countries.
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＜F/T 11 Emerging Artists Program Jury Members＞

Tadashi Uchino
Born in 1957. Theatre critic, and professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Tokyo. Currently he is a board member of the "Society of Theory of Representation and Culture", a board member of the Kanagawa Arts Foundation, and a councillor of the Saison Foundation. Furthermore he is a member of the editorial board of the academic journal TDR (published by MIT Press) that is specializing in research on Performing Arts in North America. Uchino has been regularly publishing on the topics of melodrama and theatre history in the US.

Hidenaga Otori
Born in 1948. Theatre critic. He specializes in the history of ideas in Russian art. So far, he has held positions as a member of the Global Advisory Committee of the Walker Art Center, at artistic director of the international theatre festival "Laookon" (Hamburg, Germany), and vice president of Kyoto Performing Arts Center. His publications include "Reverberation Machines: The Words of Richard Foreman". Among many other works he has translated books by Tadeusz Kantor and Andrei Tarkovsky into Japanese. Otori has also been a chief editor of numerous theater magazines, such as Theater Arts, Chimaera, and Performing Arts.

Hans-Thies Lehmann
Born in 1944. Professor of Theatre Studies at the Johan Wolfgang Goethe- Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and directs the Master Program in Dramaturgy there. His numerous publications include Theater und Mythos. Die Konstitution des Subjekts im Diskurs der antiken Tragödie (Metzler 1991), Das Politische Schreiben. Essays zu Theatertexten (Verlag Theater der Zeit 2002) together with Patrick Primavesi the Heiner Müller Handbuch (2004). His seminal work Postdramatisches Theater (1st edition 1999) was translated in 18 languages, and in English as Postdramatic Theatre (Routledge, 2006). He has published widely (book contributions, magazines and journals of literary theory and theatre studies) on contemporary theatre, Brecht, theatre aesthetics and film.
He studied in Berlin 1965-1971 at the Institute of Peter Szondi, collaborated some years there with Samuel Weber, taught aesthetics in the Academy of Fine Arts, and was visiting professor at universities in many countries (Japan, Austria, Poland, USA, Lithuania, France, Spain, Wales)

Masataka Matsuda
Born in Nagasaki in 1962. From 1990 to 1997 he was the head of Jiku Gekijo, in a double-function as playwright and director. For his plays he has been awarded numerous prizes, such as the OMS Drama Prize for "Saka no Ue no Ie" (1994), the Kishida Kunio Drama Award for "Sea and Parasol" (1996), the Yomiuri Theater Award for "Tsuki no Misaki" and the Yomiuri Prize for Literature for "Natsu no Suna no Ue" (1998). In 2000 he received the incentive prize for culture by the prefecture of Kyoto. After the Jiku Gekijo disbanded, Matsuda wrote plays for several companies such as Seinendan, Bungakuza and the theatre group En, among others. Other than his works for theatre he has been also involved with writing screenplays. One of his acclaimed works in this field is the script for Kazuo Kuroki's film "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (Utsukushii natsu kirishima), which is based on the novel "The Youth of Etsuko Kamiya". In 2004 he founded the marebito theater company, where he serves as both playwright and director. In a questionnaire by the theater magazine Theatre Arts, he was ranked first place in the category of "experimental artist". Currently he is holding the position of a guest professor at the Kyoto University of Arts and Design.

Chiaki Soma
Born in 1975. She graduated from the Waseda University of Tokyo (BA in Literature), then she majored in Arts Management and Cultural Politics at the DESS Cultural Development and Project Management (MA) of Lyon Lumiere University, and had experience in the artist in Residence and alternative art spaces in France. Since 2002, she has been working for F/T's precursor, the Tokyo International Arts Festival, producing many international collaborative projects and symposiums with foreign artists and organizations. In 2006, she founded a new creative space for the performing arts, the Yokohama Arts Platform: Steep Slope Studio in collaboration with Yokohama City, of which she was the director until 2009. In the period 2007-2009 she was an invited lecturer to the Global COE (Educational Program supported by Theatre Museum) of the Waseda University. After having held the position as the program director of the 2008 Tokyo International Arts Festival, she was assigned the same position at Festival/Tokyo in 2009.