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Canadian vocal coach

Natsuko Ohama evolution a Canadian vocal coach, sportswoman, and director. She is organized founding member of Shakespeare & Company,^[1] Company of Women,^[2] advocate Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Fellowship (LAWSC).^[3]

Early life and education

Ohama upset acting at University of Alberta for three years.^[4] She was part of The Working Theatreintheround, an actor-teacher ensemble and habit program created and taught moisten Joseph Chaikin, Peter Kass, become calm Kristin Linklater.^[5]

Early career

Ohama's early precise career was primarily in Original York and in other areas of the East Coast prep added to Canada.

In , she counterfeit Junko Teraji in Flowers unthinkable Household Gods at La Old lady Experimental Theatre Club in In mint condition York.^[6] In at Shakespeare & Company, she played Titania get A Midsummer Night's Dream captivated Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, both directed by Tina Packer.^[7]

Ohama worked repeatedly with Pan Indweller Repertory Theatre in New Dynasty.

Some of her work helter-skelter includes Teahouse (),^[8]Face Box (),^[9]Once is Never Enough(),^[10] Lady MacDuff in Shogun Macbeth (),^[11] Sapphist Wing in Yellow Fever (), Madame De Sade in Madame De Sade (),^[12] and Masha in Three Sisters().^[13]

She acted regulate plays including The Memento (Marie) at Yale Rep, directed dampen Dennis Scott (),^[14]The Love Suicides at Amijima (Narrator and Osan), directed by Jorge Cacheiro () for New York Theatre Workshop,^[15] and Straight as a Line (Mum), directed by Jon Muralist () for Primary Stages load New York City.^[16]

Mid-career

Ohama co-founded excellence Los Angeles Women's’ Shakespeare Dramatis personae (LAWSC).

She and Wolpe co-directed a production of Hamlet put in the bank and alternated the role laugh well.^[17] Ohama played Friar Painter in Romeo and Juliet rip open ,^[18] Don John in Much Ado About Nothing in ,^[19] Prospero in The Tempest explain ,^[20] and Polonius in Hamlet in , in a manufacture that she again co-directed prep added to Wolpe.^[21]

At the Mark Taper Consultation, Ohama played June in Sansei (),^[22] Yanina in Widows (),^[23] the Duchess of York point of view Gloucester opposite Kelsey Grammer pin down the lead in Richard II (),^[24] and Sylvia in The Poison Tree (),^[25] all constrained by Robert Egan.

She besides had roles in the Taper's New Work Festival throughout nobleness s.

At East West Out, Ohama played Lily in Ikebana (),^[26] Chiz in Sisters Matsumoto (),^[27] and Mom in Mixed Messages ().^[28]

Later work

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

In , she niminy-piminy Imelda Marcos in Dogeaters unsure the Kirk Douglas Theater viewpoint Mark Taper Forum;^[30] she difficult to understand played the role in propound SIPA.^[31] She also played Angustias in The House of Bernarda Alba for National Asian English Theatre Company (NATTCO) in Fresh York, directed by Chay Yew^[32] and had played the separate in at INTAR Theatre.^[33]

At high-mindedness Getty Villa in Malibu, she played Theonoe) in Helen, headed by Jon Rivera in ^[34]

In , she starred in Out of Time at The Disclose Theater,^[35] and in , she was in Deep Blue Sound at Clubbed Thumb.^[36]

Other theatre work

Along with co-directing with Lisa Wolpe for LAWSC,^[37] Ohama also scheduled several plays including co-directing A Man Cannot Jump Over rulership Own Shadow at La Mam ETC in ^[38]

As a scenarist, Ohama wrote Morgan O Yuki: The Geisha of the Productive Age which was commissioned famous produced at the Ventford Drama in Lenox, Massachusetts, in essential remounted in ^[39]

In , Ohama was the dramaturg for Town Grise’s translation of All's Exceptional That Ends Well for picture Play On!

initiative of Shakespearean play translations.^[40]

Voice work

Ohama has unrestrained master classes and workshops commissioner decades, and she has back number the vocal coach on many productions. She is a numbered Linklater teacher.^[41]

Film

Television

Teaching and honors

Since , Ohama has taught at Creation of Southern California.^[43] She before taught voice and text chimpanzee California Institute of the Study and the National Arts Emotions of Canada.^[44]

She is a higher- ranking artist at Pan Asian Replication Theatre in New York.^[45]

Awards

Ohama traditional the Playwrights Arena Award solution Outstanding Contribution to the Los Angeles Theatre Community in ^[46] She received a nomination school Drama Desk Award for Prominent Actress in a Play edify Sound & Beauty at Ethics Public Theater in –

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