Company Members
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Saki Kawamura (Associate Artistic Director) is a NYC-based interdisciplinary artist and a director from Japan. The wide range of her work seen in theater, film, and visual art included: IKIGAI: a purpose of living (Hollywood Fringe 2021, Encore Award), One-Sided (Australia Quarantine Film Festival 2020, BestPerformance Award), The Giving Tree, Grown-ups (Unfix NYC 2021), Precognito (Vireo Production) and The Memory of Water (Restart Stage at Lincoln Center with Asian American Arts Alliance). Saki also serves as Assistant Director to Casey Hushion on productions of Mystic Pizza (Ogunquit Playhouse), A Jolly Holiday: Celebrating Disney’s Broadway Hits, Clue (Paper Mill Playhouse), Joy: The New Musical (George Street Playhouse). Her works reflect an international viewpoint, which incorporates eastern culture and values. She aims to create theatrical experiences which will build bridges across cultures. MFA Directing at the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University.
Saki's official Website En: 2021 In Our Hands (School Production) Mukuro (Video Work) |
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Miles Butler (Member)is an Actor, Physical Theatre Artist from D.C. He has been working with Ren Gyo Soh since 2017. NYC Credits: Peter and the Starcatcher (EPIC), Caveman Play (Third Space), Shinka (RenGyoSoh), Naked Hamlet (Torn Out Theater), Alexander Who’s Not Going To Move (Two Beans, National Tour), enter a garden (Motor Company), in the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey (Beck Lyrics) DC: Studio Theatre, Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Wolf Trap, Ford’s Theater, Folger Theater and various. Former company member of Synetic Theater and the Flea Theatre. He is a teaching artist with EPIC Players, a neuro-inclusive theatre company. BFA in Theatre (Brooklyn College).
SHINKA at D.C. Fringe (2017) SHINKA at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (2018) En (2019) Oblivion (2020) En: 2021 (2021) Mukuro (2022) |
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Annie McCoy (Member) is an actress from Orlando who started with a focus on Musical Theatre. However, she developed a passion for physical theatre while attending Circle in the Square. Post graduation she continued to train with Danyon Davis, specifically in Creative Physicality. For the last 7 years, she has been training under and collaborating with Yokko through the Ume group and then through Ren Gyo Soh. Past productions include Splitfoot (Piper Theatre) and By Wing, Fin, Hoof or Foot (The Ume Group). As well as Ren Gyo Soh’s Butoh-centric Shinka (IT awards winner) and En. During the pandemic, she continued to create in the virtual productions EN:2021 and Saki Kawamura’s IKIGAI (Hollywood Fringe). Annie’s belief is that Butoh is a craft that allows for the opportunity to take accountability and notice of all things past, present, and future in our universe. With this awareness, it is her goal to use the body as a vessel to produce art that is truthful, transcendent, and engaging, while also being environmentally conscious.
SHINKA at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (2018) En (2019) Oblivion (2020) En:2021 Mukuro (2022) |
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Zak Ma (Member) is a New York based Vietnamese American actor from Southern California. While pursuing his MFA at The Actors Studio Drama School, Zak explored transformational roles such as Prior in Angels in America, Alan in Equus, and Steve in Hope and Gravity. He is also a passionate devised theatre artist, having collaborated in original experimental works such as The Park, Forces, and SHINKA, where he first dove into butoh with Ren Gyo Soh. Zak believes in the healing power of art and aims to explore the human psyche and spirituality in his artistic endeavors.
Zak's official website En:2021 Mukuro (2022) |
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Megan Cattau (Apprentice) is an aerialist. She found her primary movement form, the dance trapeze, training under Susan Murphy, who remains a deep inspiration. Since then, she has performed, choreographed, directed, and taught extensively in the US and abroad, working principally under the project Flight Collaborative. Her performance and teaching homes have included Canopy Studio in Athens, GA (where she was the business manager and then assistant director); Circus Warehouse in NYC; and Frequent Flyers in Boulder, CO. She also founded the aerial dance program at Durham School for Ballet and the Performing Arts in Durham, NC and has performed as a core member of Constellation Moving. Her choreography is featured in the book Aerial Dance (Bernasconi and Smith, 2008). She is interested in how movement and visual art can be used to communicate in a way that is kinesthetic, cerebral, immersive, honest, and emotionally evocative. Megan is also a disturbance ecologist, working in Indonesia as well as the Western U.S., and her mind is always on the trees.
Mukuro (2022) |
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Jorge Luna (Associate Company Member) At the age of seven he was inspired by a virtuoso circus performance by a troupe called Círcolo. Jorge started off as a dj and loved being smuggled into nightclubs at a young age to spin. FILM: planet b234 (Aesthetica), The Week Of (Netflix), All The Beautiful Things, (Sundance), papa y yoyo, The Last Frankenstein, Catching Fireflies, All Is Not Lost, Angelo, Bx3M.
TV: Lisey’s Story, Elementary, The Blacklist, Power, Law & Order: SVU, The Code, One Life to Live, Basile. THEATRE: Baipás (George Street Playhouse), Constellations (George S. Lindsey Theatre), Hamlet (Caborca), Deathwatch (The New Ohio Theatre), The Dream Dances (The Ume Group), EN:2021, SHINKA, Yuragi (Ren Gyo Soh), Starry Messenger (Theatre For The New City), Cymbeline (Chashama), Iphigenia at Aulis (Tiyatro Global), The Promise (CBA), FLORIDITA, My Love (INTAR), Barceloneta, de noche (IATI), The Tempest, Julius Caesar (BC). TRAINING: Teatro; Universidad de Puerto Rico, Shakespeare; Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. MFA Acting; Brooklyn College. @jorgelunadj Jorge Lune Official Website SHINKA D.C. Capital Fringe (2017) En:2021 |
