© Yokota Toru Chelfitsch Organization: Chelfitsch Representative: Mr. OKADA Toshiki (Representative / Playwright / Director) Contact: Ms. NAKAMURA Akane (Producer) Address: precog, 1-8-9-202 Daizawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 155-0032, JAPAN Tel: +81-3-3410-1816Fax: +81-3-3410-1816 E-mail: info@precog-jp.netWebsite: http://chelfitsch.net · Profile: Originally, chelfitch is a one-man theater company founded by OKADA Toshiki. “chelfitsch” is a disarticulation of the English word “selfish”. It is a name that evokes infantilism, a social and cultural characteristic of Japan today, not least of Tokyo. Main works: “On the Harmful Effects of Marihuana” (2003), “Five Days in March” (2004), “Post * The End of Toil” (2005), “The Air-Conditioner” (2004). Company Tokyo Kandenchi Organization: Company Tokyo Kandenchi Co., Ltd. Representative: Mr. EMOTO Akira (Representative / Actor / Director) Contact: Ms. EMOTO Yoshiko (Producer) Address: 1-14-7 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 155-0031, JAPAN Tel: +81-3-3468-9391Fax: +81-3-3468-9391 E-mail: ye0331@marble.ocn.ne.jpWebsite: http://www.tokyo-kandenchi.com · Profile: Theater company Tokyo Kandenchi was formed in 1976 by actor EMOTO Akira. The company has grown to include 50 company members and has gained popularity for its tense stage performances and sharp-tongued dialogue. Recent productions include Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, Ionesco's “The Lesson”, film director OZU Yasujiro's “Record of a Tenement Gentleman” and BETSUYAKU Minoru's “Five Gentleman” series, all directed by EMOTO Akira. Since 2004, Tokyo Kandenchi has performed works at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival (Romania) and Le Festival d'Avignon (France). Europe Kikaku Organization: Europe Kikaku Representative: Mr. UEDA Makoto (Scriptwriter / Director) Contact: Mr. IGAMI Takuya (Producer) Address: 38 Hokusei-cho, Nishinokyo, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoro-shi, Kyoto 604-8382, JAPAN Tel: +81-75-822-6667Fax: +81-75-822-3345 E-mail: igami@europe-kikaku.comWebsite: http://www.europe-kikaku.com · Profile: Founded in 1998 at Kyoto, UEDA Makoto writes and directs for the company with a situation comedy. They tour to all parts of Japan including Sapporo, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka. © Miyauchi Katsu Hanagumi Shibai Organization: Hanagumi Shibai Representative: Mr. KANOU Yukikazu (Executive President) Contact: Ms. FUJIOKA Yoko (Production Manager) / Ms. UCHIYAMA Yoriko (Production Manager) Address: 1-19-6 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-0094, JAPAN Tel: +81-3-3709-9430Fax: +81-3-3709-9431 E-mail: yoko@hanagumi.ne.jpWebsite: http://hanagumi.ne.jp · Profile: In the original spirit of populist kabuki, Hanagumi Shibai has created a unique Fusion genre of unlimited possibility in its inspired improvisations combining old and new from East and West. Its founder, actor KANOU Yukikazu, launched the company in 1987, convinced by his kabuki training that indigenous Japanese theatre forms could expand to embrace the new and different while still maintaining their unique integrity. He calls his creation “Neo-Kabuki.” His original Neo-Kabuki version of Shakespeare's Tempest played to rave reviews in Los Angeles and Seattle in 1996, electrifying U.S. audiences with its dynamic kabukiesque stage magic. mark the bird Organization: mark the bird Representative: Mr. YAMANAKA Masaya (Director) Contact: Ms. YANAGISAWA Akiko (Producer) Address: 1-23-14 Higashimukoujima, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 131-0032, JAPAN Tel: +81-90-6022-6410Fax: +81-3-3610-0675 E-mail: tori@bananawani.orgWebsite: http://www.bananawani.org/tori · Profile: Group that makes work that can be called play, performance, and art begins activity in 1991. It marks it to the name of the group to have bird's shape. The work conceived in the important cultural asset specification building, the garden, and the shipyard, etc. because of the place is presented making based on Tokyo. It works on the expression workshops of adults and children who are progressing the art project related to the region in Tokyo Sumida Ward Mukoujima, Hiroshima Prefecture Onomichi City, Niigata Prefecture Echigotsumari, and the Nagano Prefecture chino city, etc. Niwa the garden penino Organization: Niwa the garden penino Representative: Mr. TANINO Kuro (Scriptwriter / Director) Contact: Mr. NOBIRA Hisashi (Producer) Address: 1-53-6-102 Izumi, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 168-0063, JAPAN Tel: +81-3-3324-9542Fax: +81-3-3324-9542 E-mail: penino@niwagekidan.orgWebsite: http://www.niwagekidan.org · Profile: Established in 2000 by TANINO, who was a student of Showa University. Niwa the garden penino attracted the public attention when they won the highest score and passed the open audition of the Gardian Garden Theater Festival 2001. Their performance at traditional theaters achieved a great success, but they became a hot topic when they made a play theater out of their own room of a condominium, or put up a gigantic tent, about 50 meters long, in a vacant lot in Shinjuku. In 2004, they made their first overseas performance. Obviously, Niwa the garden penino is one of the most sensational play companies among the Japanese small theaters. © Iida Kenki Shigeki NAKANO + Frankens Organization: Shigeki NAKANO + Frankens Representative: Mr. NAKANO Shigeki (Artistic Director) Contact: Mr. NAKANO Shigeki (Artistic Director) / Ms. AKIMOTO Eri (Administrator) / Ms. KATO Yumina (Administrator) Address: 16-12-306 Shinsen-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0045, JAPAN Tel: +81-3-3879-8879Fax: +81-3-3879-8879 E-mail: admin@frankens.jpWebsite: http://www.frankens.jp · Profile: Founded in 2003, Shigeki NAKANO + Frankens has been a most up and coming theater company in the category of translated plays in Japan. NAKANO Shigeki, artistic director, has dedicated to existing foreign drama scripts such as Thornton Wilder, Carlo Goldoni, Bertolt Brecht, Molière and recomposed them in his own original and contemporary way to pick up delicately universal human emotions with reality and fantasy. They are based on ST Spot, which is an experimental and cutting-age space in Yokohama, and creates new piece once a year constantly. tonbodama Organization: tonbodama Representative: Ms. SHIMABAYASHI Ai (Director / Scriptwriter) Contact: Ms. SHIMABAYASHI Ai (Director / Scriptwriter) Address: Maison de Tatsumi 202, 3-35-13 Daita, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 155-0033, JAPAN Tel: +81-80-1027-9165Fax: +81-3-3649-7986 E-mail: tonnbodama@msn.comWebsite: http://homepage2.nifty.com/tonbodama · Profile: It started in 2001 by SHIMABAYASHI Ai. The stage art that makes the best use of an original space is progressed by the idea “The person that a sense of existence is in the place with a sense of existence gathers”. We delicately make distortion that each person have the stage. In the drama of life that seems to be a usual. The world that character's realities and dream cross each other. Uzume Theatre Organization: Uzume Theatre Representative: Mr. Peter GOESSNER (Leader / Director) Contact: Ms. MATSUO Yoko (Producer / Actress) Address: Tamachi1-4-7, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka 806-0003, Japan Tel: +81-90-1161-3215Fax: +81-50-1032-0827 E-mail: uzume.net@gmail.comWebsite: http://www.geocities.jp/uzumebb · Profile: Uzume Theatre is one of the most famous theatre groups of the west-side in Japan. Since 1996, they showed in over twenty productions, Japanese and European plays, unique directing and an ability to connect the most old-fashioned plays with the modern society in a way everybody feels one is watching a story of today's Japanese world. The leader, the East-German Peter GOESSNER, got the first national directing award in 2000 at the Toga-directing contest from SUZUKI Tadashi. Uzume Theater performs from time to time outside Kyushu, at festivals in Shizuoka or Cairo included, and invited to Leipzig Theaterfestival 2007 with Sophokles' “Antigone”. YUBIWA Hotel Organization: YUBIWA Hotel Representative: Ms. HITSUJIYA Shirotama (Artistic Director) Contact: Mr. SATOH Michimoto (Managing Director / Company Manager) Address: 4-41-15-701 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0053, JAPAN Tel: +81-3-5333-6152Fax: +81-3-5333-6154 E-mail: michimoto@yubiwahotel.comWebsite: http://www.yubiwahotel.com · Profile: Established in 1994 by HITSUJIYA Shirotama, who has led the all-female company. As artistic director and choreographer; she has created more than 40 works and has been performed in warehouses, a tennis court, strip clubs and many other unconventional performance places. In 2001, she lived in New York and worked with NYC performers to create Long Distance Love. After that, she collaborated with ONG Keng Sen in Dreamtime in Tokyo. Chosen as one of “The 100 Most Influential Japanese Women in the World” by Newsweek Japan, 2006. Later that year, YUBIWA hotel participated in The Bridge by Richard FOREMAN and Sophie HAVILAND.