Ako

AEA Member
Ako
Ensemble in The White Snake
Cook in Seagull
 

In two seasons at OSF: Soothsayer and Caius Ligarius in Julius Caesar; Madame Marcade in Love's Labor's Lost; Lady Asaji in Throne of Blood.

Other theatres: Off-Broadway: Lotus Blossom in Teahouse of the August Moon, Yojo in Shogun Macbeth, Atsuko Yamamoto in Tea (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre); Mrs. Kajiwara and Mother in Sake with a Haiku Geisha (Gotham Stage Company); Yasako in Kokoro (Playwrights Preview Productions); Ayako Asano in Majority of One (Jewish Repertory Theatre). Regional: Chin and Suzuki in M. Butterfly (Arena Stage); Atsuko Yamamoto in Tea (Pittsburgh Public Theater, A Contemporary Theatre); Nhu in American Tet (Contemporary American Theater Festival); Katsumi in Sayonara (TUTS, National Tour); Fumiko in Sayonara, Maiden in Mikado Inc. (Paper Mill Playhouse); Fujino in Class C Trial (Alley Theatre).

Film/TV: Snow Falling on Cedars, No Reservation, Twelve, 30 Rock, Prisoners in Time (BBC with John Hurt).

Workshops: Shiho in The Bebop Heard in Okinawa (The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference); Namiji in Sansho the Bailiff (Brooklyn Academy of Music).

Awards: Best Singer, Best Achievement & Newcomer Award (Takarazuka Theatre).

Education: Takarazuka Music School, Japan.