The Ume Group Company - The Ensemble

Yokko  Associate Artistic Director

Yokko is an actor, Butoh & Theatre Artist, solo performer, theatre educator from Japan. She has acted in, devised and choreographed a variety of local and international shows, having won several awards, including “Best One-Woman Show”, “Best Choreography” and “Best Physical Theatre Show” for Butoh Medea (United Solo 2014 & 2015 at Theatre Row, NYC). Butoh Medea was selected to perform in Warsaw, Poland. (United Solo Europe 2015, Teatre Syrena), toured Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015, nominated by The Asian Arts Award. It has been touring Europe and USA since 2015. Other Theatre credits include: BALDY (CRS, United Solo 2013, HFF 2013, Fringe NYC 2012), FACET (Irondale Center, Wave Rising Series, HFF 2013), Antigone (Planet Connection 2016). Yokko also acted in several local and international films, one of which is the Student Academy Winner film, Cloud-Kumo (2016). She is also the artistic director of Ren Gyo Soh in NYC. She has been holding her workshops in NYC, and has been invited to offer it in several Universities in the USA and festivals & theatres in Poland, Scotland, Italy, and Turkey since 2014. Director credits include: Social Action Project (the Ume Group), SHINKA (Ren Gyo Soh, D.C. CapitalFringe 2017)  B.A in Theatre (UAlbany), MFA in Acting (The Actors Studio). www.yokko-online.com

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Yokko on The Ume Group's "Lysistrata Project" The Irondale (2016) photo by Chris Carlone.