Guest Speakers

Sue Hoyle

Director, Clore Leadership Programme

Sue Hoyle has been Clore Leadership Programme Director since 2008, having previously been Deputy Director from the time the Clore Leadership Programme was created in 2003. She has extensive experience of senior positions in the arts: prior to joining the Clore Leadership Programme, she was Executive Director of The Place. Other posts have included Head of Arts for the British Council in France and Deputy Secretary General of Arts Council England. She is currently a Trustee of the British Council, and has previously served on the boards of London Philharmonic Orchestra, DV8 Physical Theatre and Shobana Jeyasingh Dance. She was made a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques in 2010 for her services to French culture, and awarded an OBE in 2011 for her services to contemporary dance.

Sachio Ichimura

Directors Committee Representative, Festival/Tokyo

Born in 1949. He has served as an administrator for Sankai Juku, Toyota Art Management Lecture Director, Park Tower Art Program Advisor, President of Theater TV, Administrative Director of Tokyo International Festival of Performing Arts, and Director of Tokyo International Arts Festival. His long career has seen him work in Japan and overseas in performing arts programming and production, as well as operating cultural facilities, arts management, projects connecting corporations with culture, and NPO research. He is currently Chairman of NPO Arts Network Japan, as well as an associate professor in the Department of Musical Creativity and the Environment at Tokyo University of the Arts.

Hiroshi Takahagi

Vice Director, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre

Born in Tokyo in 1953, Hiroshi Takahagi graduated from the Faculty of Letters, the University of Tokyo. He was one of the founding members of Yume no Yumin Sha. He was Manager of the Panasonic Globe Theatre, General Producer of Setagaya Public Theatre, and is currently Vice Director of Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, a guest professor at Tama Art University and a member of an advisory council for cultural policy at Agency for Cultural Affairs.

Manami Yuasa

British Council

After graduating from university she worked in PR for an international industrial trade fair company, before joining the theatre marketing department of an independent film distributor. As a publicity producer she was in charge of PR for the films currently on release. In 1995 she joined the arts team for the British Council. She is currently the manager for the arts department, handling the art projects for the British Council in Japan, as well as overseeing the UK-Japan arts and cultural exchange programme in co-ordination with cultural agencies in both countries.

Guest Speakers

Yuko Ishiwata

Program Director, Arts Council Tokyo

After graduating from International Christian University, she worked at the Institute of Social Engineering, being involved with a range of cultural institutions and organizations, including planning for the Setagaya Public Theater, Nagano Prefecture Matsumoto Cultural Hall, Mie Center for the Arts, and the Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities. She then worked at Dentsu, where she was involved with market analysis, trend research, consumer insights, generational analysis, high-net-worth individual analysis, and more. From May 2012 she was part of the preliminary team for Arts Council Tokyo, and then became Program Director from November 2012.

Masao Katayama

Managing Director, Saison Foundation

Born in 1958, he worked for Seibu Department Store before joining the Saison Foundation in 1989. He became Managing Director in 2003. He was a research fellow at John Hopkins University in 1994-1995, studying subsidy programmes. He teaches at the Graduate School of Social Design Studies at Rikkyo University, as well as serving in roles at the Japan Association of Charitable Organizations, the Japan Foundation Center, the Association for Corporate Support of the Arts, Tokyo Arts and Culture Council, Arts Council Tokyo, and the Civil Society Initiative Fund.

Hiromi Maruoka

Director, Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama / President, Pacific Basin Arts Communication

She has been Director of TPAM since 2005, the Tokyo performing arts industry event (based in Yokohama since 2011). In 2003 she founded the Post-Mainstream Performing Arts Festival (PPAF) and organized the Asia Satellite Meetings (2008, 2011) for the International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM), a Brussel-based network organization of people working in the field of performing arts in Europe. Since 2012 she has been running Sound Live Tokyo, the festival focused on sound. She is also Vice President of the Open Network for Performing Arts Management (ON-PAM).

Guest Speakers

Mariko Tsukaguchi

Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama / Pacific Basin Arts Communication

Born in 1977. She has worked for Pacific Basin Arts Communication (PARC) since 2006 and serves as production officer for the Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (TPAM), as well as co-ordinating tours and production for commissioned works. Under the auspices of the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ overseas training fellowship she studied arts management at the Edinburgh Festival and a theatre in London from 2009 to 2010. She serves on the board of ST Spot and is Secretary Director of the Open Network for Performing Arts Management (ON-PAM).

Kenta Fujiwara

Nevula Extra Support

Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1980. After graduating from J.F. Oberlin University he joined Nevula Exta Support (NEXT), which provides support services for producers, in 2006, attached to the flyer marketing team. Since 2012 he has been co-ordinating NEXT’s stage production “cram school” and involved with improving training in the field and working environments for the performing arts. He helped establish the Open Network for Performing Arts Management (ON-PAM) and has served as its Secretariat since 2013. In 2014 he was appointed to be a special researcher for Arts Council Tokyo.

Fumi Yokobori

Program Director, NPO DANCE BOX

A trainee under the study program for upcoming artists of the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2006. Researched the situation of performing arts in six Asian countries and New York as a fellow of the Asian Cultural Council from 2008 to 2009. Based at Art Theater dB Kobe, she has been experimenting on programs that connect dance, local communities and theatre, aiming to build network with a focus on Asia.

Yuko Uematsu

Festival/Tokyo

Born in 1981 in Ehime Prefecture. She graduated in dance education studies at Ochanomizu University. She began working as a production assistant for dance performances while still a student and after graduating worked in theatre company production, other corporate industries, and travelled overseas. She joined Festival/Tokyo in 2008 as a member of the founding production team for the festival. From 2011 she became a production management and was in charge of the F/T Emerging Artists Program and the Critics in Residence program. In 2012 she studied in Seoul for a year and then worked as a freelance producer for two years, before returning to Festival/Tokyo in April 2014. She is currently as chief producer.