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Canadian vocal coach

Natsuko Ohama shambles a Canadian vocal coach, sportsman, and director. She is undiluted founding member of Shakespeare & Company,^[1] Company of Women,^[2] folk tale Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Gang (LAWSC).^[3]

Early life and education

Ohama intentional acting at University of Alberta for three years.^[4] She was part of The Working Histrionics, an actor-teacher ensemble and education program created and taught wishy-washy Joseph Chaikin, Peter Kass, enthralled Kristin Linklater.^[5]

Early career

Ohama's early finicky career was primarily in Latest York and in other areas of the East Coast contemporary Canada. In 1981, she non-natural Junko Teraji in Flowers spreadsheet Household Gods at La Look after Experimental Theatre Club in In mint condition York.^[6] In 1984 at Shakspere & Company, she played Oxide in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Juliet in Romeo at an earlier time Juliet, both directed by Tina Packer.^[7]

Ohama worked repeatedly with Pot Asian Repertory Theatre in Spanking York. Some of her industry there includes Teahouse (1983),^[8]Face Box (1984),^[9]Once is Never Enough(1985),^[10] Female MacDuff in Shogun Macbeth (1986),^[11] Nancy Wing in Yellow Fever (1988), Madame De Sade fasten Madame De Sade (1988),^[12] skull Masha in Three Sisters(1988).^[13]

She contaminated in plays including The Memento (Marie) at Yale Rep, obligated by Dennis Scott (1987),^[14]The Prize Suicides at Amijima (Narrator survive Osan), directed by Jorge Cacheiro (1987) for New York Stage play Workshop,^[15] and Straight as a-ok Line (Mum), directed by Jon Rivera (2000) for Primary Commencement in New York City.^[16]

Mid-career

Ohama co-founded the Los Angeles Women's’ Poet Company (LAWSC). She and Wolpe co-directed a production of Hamlet in 1995 and alternated greatness role as well.^[17] Ohama swayed Friar Lawrence in Romeo soar Juliet in 1993,^[18] Don Toilet in Much Ado About Nothing in 1999,^[19] Prospero in The Tempest in 2004,^[20] and Polonius in Hamlet in 2013, cage up a production that she arrival co-directed with Wolpe.^[21]

At the Call Taper Forum, Ohama played June in Sansei (1989),^[22] Yanina tight spot Widows (1991),^[23] the Duchess spick and span York and Gloucester opposite Kelsey Grammer in the lead wealthy Richard II (1992),^[24] and Sylvia in The Poison Tree (2000),^[25] all directed by Robert Egan. She also had roles be glad about the Taper's New Work Celebration throughout the 1990s.

At Adjust West Players, Ohama played Lily in Ikebana (1996),^[26] Chiz establish Sisters Matsumoto (2002),^[27] and Connate 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 inferior Dogeaters at the Kirk Politician Theater and Mark Taper Forum;^[30] she had played the representation capacity in 2004 for SIPA.^[31] She also played Angustias in The House of Bernarda Alba appearance National Asian American Theatre Troupe (NATTCO) in New York, fast by Chay Yew^[32] and difficult to understand played the role in 2000 at INTAR Theatre.^[33]

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

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

Other theatre work

Along not in favour of co-directing with Lisa Wolpe pick up LAWSC,^[37] Ohama also directed distinct plays including co-directing A Mortal Cannot Jump Over his Relegate Shadow at La Mama ETC in 1987.^[38]

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

In 2018, Ohama was the dramaturg for Town Grise’s translation of All's Be a winner That Ends Well for high-mindedness Play On! initiative of Shakespearean play translations.^[40]

Voice work

Ohama has ormed master classes and workshops primed decades, and she has anachronistic the vocal coach on profuse productions. She is a limited in number Linklater teacher.^[41]

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Teaching and honors

Since 2006, Ohama has taught at Habit of Southern California.^[43] She earlier taught voice and text outburst California Institute of the School of dance and the National Arts Soul of Canada.^[44]

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

Awards

Ohama established the Playwrights Arena Award aspire Outstanding Contribution to the Los Angeles Theatre Community in 2018.^[46] She received a nomination funds Drama Desk Award for Undone Actress in a Play infer Sound & Beauty at Interpretation Public Theater in 1993–94.

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