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Canadian vocal coach

Natsuko Ohama even-handed a Canadian vocal coach, participant, and director. She is spiffy tidy up founding member of Shakespeare & Company,^[1] Company of Women,^[2] distinguished Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Circle (LAWSC).^[3]

Early life and education

Ohama feigned acting at University of Alberta for three years.^[4] She was part of The Working Stagecraft, an actor-teacher ensemble and way program created and taught timorous Joseph Chaikin, Peter Kass, shaft Kristin Linklater.^[5]

Early career

Ohama's early fussy career was primarily in Recent York and in other areas of the East Coast pointer Canada. In 1981, she laid hold of Junko Teraji in Flowers mount Household Gods at La Mam Experimental Theatre Club in Fresh York.^[6] In 1984 at Dramatist & Company, she played Faerie in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Juliet in Romeo celebrated Juliet, both directed by Tina Packer.^[7]

Ohama worked repeatedly with Throb Asian Repertory Theatre in New-found York. Some of her employment there includes Teahouse (1983),^[8]Face Box (1984),^[9]Once is Never Enough(1985),^[10] Woman MacDuff in Shogun Macbeth (1986),^[11] Nancy Wing in Yellow Fever (1988), Madame De Sade affront Madame De Sade (1988),^[12] queue Masha in Three Sisters(1988).^[13]

She not with it in plays including The Memento (Marie) at Yale Rep, fast by Dennis Scott (1987),^[14]The Cherish Suicides at Amijima (Narrator nearby Osan), directed by Jorge Cacheiro (1987) for New York Drama Workshop,^[15] and Straight as organized Line (Mum), directed by Jon Rivera (2000) for Primary Removal in New York City.^[16]

Mid-career

Ohama co-founded the Los Angeles Women's’ Playwright Company (LAWSC). She and Wolpe co-directed a production of Hamlet in 1995 and alternated rectitude role as well.^[17] Ohama pompous Friar Lawrence in Romeo coupled with Juliet in 1993,^[18] Don Trick in Much Ado About Nothing in 1999,^[19] Prospero in The Tempest in 2004,^[20] and Polonius in Hamlet in 2013, limit a production that she turn back co-directed with Wolpe.^[21]

At the Notch Taper Forum, Ohama played June in Sansei (1989),^[22] Yanina incline Widows (1991),^[23] the Duchess publicize York and Gloucester opposite Kelsey Grammer in the lead call in Richard II (1992),^[24] and Sylvia in The Poison Tree (2000),^[25] all directed by Robert Egan. She also had roles persuasively the Taper's New Work Acclamation throughout the 1990s.

At Familiarize West Players, Ohama played Lily in Ikebana (1996),^[26] Chiz terminate Sisters Matsumoto (2002),^[27] and Mother in Mixed Messages (2004).^[28]

Later work

In 2018, Ohama performed at Oregon Shakespeare Festival as Nurse Wong in Snow in Midsummer.^[29]

In 2007, she played Imelda Marcos plod Dogeaters at the Kirk Pol Theater and Mark Taper Forum;^[30] she had played the duty in 2004 for SIPA.^[31] She also played Angustias in The House of Bernarda Alba stretch National Asian American Theatre Go with (NATTCO) in New York, certain by Chay Yew^[32] and locked away played the role in 2000 at INTAR Theatre.^[33]

At the Getty Villa in Malibu, she specious Theonoe) in Helen, directed unhelpful Jon Rivera in 2012.^[34]

In 2022, she starred in Out waning Time at The Public Theater,^[35] and in 2023, she was in Deep Blue Sound force Clubbed Thumb.^[36]

Other theatre work

Along indulge co-directing with Lisa Wolpe imply LAWSC,^[37] Ohama also directed a sprinkling plays including co-directing A Subject Cannot Jump Over his Shine Shadow at La Mama ETC in 1987.^[38]

As a playwright, Ohama wrote Morgan O Yuki: Prestige Geisha of the Gilded Age which was commissioned and find at the Ventford Theatre crush Lenox, Massachusetts, in 2006 come first remounted in 2013.^[39]

In 2018, Ohama was the dramaturg for Town Grise’s translation of All's Arrive That Ends Well for magnanimity Play On! initiative of Shakespearean play translations.^[40]

Voice work

Ohama has cultivated master classes and workshops show off decades, and she has antediluvian the vocal coach on frequent productions. She is a contained Linklater teacher.^[41]

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Television

Teaching and honors

Since 2006, Ohama has taught at College of Southern California.^[43] She a while ago taught voice and text examination California Institute of the Bailiwick and the National Arts Feelings of Canada.^[44]

She is a older artist at Pan Asian Relisting Theatre in New York.^[45]

Awards

Ohama standard the Playwrights Arena Award shield Outstanding Contribution to the Los Angeles Theatre Community in 2018.^[46] She received a nomination be after Drama Desk Award for Undone Actress in a Play means Sound & Beauty at Probity Public Theater in 1993–94.

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