Artistic Director (Play)
UYAMA HITOSHI (Artistic Director)
Graduated Keio University with a degree in French literature. After attending Butai Geijutu Gakuin, he joined the Bungakuza Institute a troupe member. His debut a director was the 1982 production of Prague 1975 at the Bungakuza Atelier, and he has continued to be a dynamic presence in the field ever since. From 1983, he lived for one year in Paris as an overseas artist trainee affiliated with the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.
He was appointed the Artistic Consultant (drama) at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in April 2005 and the Artistic Director (drama) in September 2007.
Mr. Uyama received the Minister of Education’s Art Encouragement Prize in 1989. He won the Senda Koreya Prize of the Second Mainichi Art Awards for his direction of Le Diner de Cons and The Cripple of Inishmaan in 1999. In 2001, he received the Kinokuniya Theatre Award in the individual category and the outstanding Director Award of the Yomiuri Theater Awards for Copenhagen (first performed at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in 2001 and staged again in March 2007) and Peggy for You!? (performed in 2001). In 2003, he was given the Grand prix and the Best Director Award of the Yomiuri Theater Awards for his direction of Judgement at Nuremberg (performed by the Hyogo Butai Geijutsu theatre company) and others.
His main works include The Greeks (presented with the 25th Kinokuniya Theatre Award in the theatre company category), Kanzume (given the Excellence Award at the 55th National Arts Festival), and The Weir as well as Yuki ya kon kon and Chichi to Kuraseba. (The first three works were performed by the Bungakuza theatre company while the last two were performed by the Komatsuza theatre company.) He has also worked on various highly acclaimed operas.
At the New National Theatre, Tokyo : Copenhagen, he has directed King Lear, Shin Ugetsu Monogatari, Shin Jigokuhen, Hana Saku Minato, and Kaeru, “Three Tragedies” Vol.1- Argos Zaka no Shiroi Ie from Clytemnestra, A Japanese Nameed Otto, and opera Carmen. In the 2008/2009 season, L'Illusion Comique and Nue.
