Toshiki Okada
Japanese writer
Toshiki Okada (岡田 利規, Okada Toshiki; born July 3, 1973) is a Japanese playwright, theater director, novelist, and founder of the theatrical company chelfitsch. He is known for "his use of hyper-colloquial Japanese and his unique choreography."
Life and career
Personal life
Born in Yokohama in 1973, Okada attended Nagatadai Elementary and Nagata Secondary School there. In 1992, he started attending Keio University under the Faculty of Business and Commerce. Being a fan of Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders, Okada aspired to be a movie director when he was in middle school, which led him to join a theater club in Keio University. During this process, he gained experience in writing scenarios and scripts, which piqued his interest in stage directing as well. In his first year at Keio, he learned of Hideki Noda through Noda's troupe, The Dream Wanderers (夢の遊眠社, Yume no Yūmin-sha), who had their final performance in 1992. Noda's modern and "unexpected" style influenced Okada's earlier works.
Career
In 1997, Okada formed the theatrical company chelfitsch in collaboration with dancer, Natsuko Tezuka. The name chelfitsch (チェルフィッチュ) is a play on the English word "selfish," and is always written with a lowercase c. After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, chelfitsch relocated from Yokohama to Kumamoto to avoid the threats of the earthquake and nuclear contamination.
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