Writer/Azusa/Co-Producer

Haruna Lee is a Brooklyn-based theater maker whose work navigates non-linear playwriting, auto-theoretical performance text, and promoting arts activism and emergent strategies for the theater through ethical and process-based collaborations. With her theater company harunalee, she has produced six original works in New York, including Memory Retrograde (The Public’s Under The Radar Festival), Sugar Shack (La MaMa Club) and War Lesbian (Dixon Place TONY LGBT Critic’s Pick). Lee is a recipient of the Map Fund Grant, Lotos Foundation Prize for Directing, and the New Dramatist Van Lier Fellowship. Her play Suicide Forest is published by 53rd State Press. She teaches playwriting and performance at NYU. harunalee.com

Miho/Celeb#2/Company Member#2/Kamiya-san

Member of SITI company. Credits include; Bacchae (BAM), Steel Hammer (music by Julia Wolfe), A Rite (with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company), American Document (with Martha Graham Dance Company), the theater is a blank page (with Ann Hamilton), Trojan Women (Getty Villa), bobrauschenbergamerica (American Repertory Theatre), Radio Macbeth (Public Theater) and Culture of Desire (NYTW), all directed by Anne Bogart; Hanjo (Japan Society) directed by Leon Ingulsrud. Other credits: Sleep (directed by Rachel Dickstein); The Trojan Women, Three Sisters and Dionysus (as a member of SCOT, directed by Tadashi Suzuki). Akiko is originally from Akita, Japan.

Mad Mad

Aoi Lee is a Butoh performer and Butoh-Fu Researcher. She draws her performance style from Japanese artist Yukio Waguri, having studied under him from 2014 to 2017 at both Keio University and University of Cambridge. She researched Butoh-Fu at Keio University in 2016. She is currently performing in Seattle, New York and Akita, in Japan.

Friend/Celeb #3/Company Member #3/Gobo

Keizo Kaji is a Japanese-native actor, director, writer, translator and composer. His past credits as a performer include Cherry Orchard (at Chekhov's estate in Melikhovo, Russia), Island (created by David Brick), La Marea Yokohama (directed by Mariano Pensotti), and Schweik in the Second World War (directed by Manfred Karge). He also served as an assistant director/translator to Fabien Prioville for a contemporary dance production, The Soma Project.

Office Lady/Celeb#1/Company Member#1/Guriko

Yuki Kawahisa is a performing artist. The New York Times hailed her as “dynamite” (Andrew Ondrejcak’s FEAST, The Public Theatre), “simple and brutal as a knife to the throat.” (Temporary Distortion’s Americana Kamikaze, PS122; Creteil Maison des Arts, Paris; VIA Festival International, Maubeuge; Birsbane Powerhouse). Other credits include Aya Ogawa’s Ludic Proxy (The Play Company); Time’s Journey Through a Room (Dan Rothenberg/Toshiki Okada, The Play Company), Robert Wilson’s KOOL: Dancing in my Mind (Guggenheim Museum, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Akademie der Kunste Berlin); Wang Chong’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2.0 (Tokyo Metropolitan Theater); Ondrejcak’s Elijah Green (The KITCHEN).

Salaryman

The Bushwick Starr debut. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BAM), Twelves Night (BBS), Heisei Nakamuraza’s Naniwa Kagami (Lincoln Center), Yoko Ono’s HIROSHIMA (TNC), NY Premiere Yuko Mishima’s Lady Aoi (TSS) and Fool For Love (TKO). Films/televisions: Iron Fist, Gotham, Pan Am,13, Pistol Whipped, Bashira (2020). Eddy wrote/directed/produced Tokyo Desert Staged reading (Gibney Dance) in 2017 because he was inspired by Suicide Forest staged reading.

Chiho/Go

Multi-disciplinary works include: Suns Are Suns and Ha directed by Maria Mileaf; Knock on the Sky and A Face of Our Own with composer Myra Melford; Blood Cherries directed by Jonathan Rosenberg and Sabrina Peck. Other performances include: Kristine Haruna Lee’s Memory Retrograde; Life Is a Dream, conceived and directed by Charles Mee; John Jesurun’s Stopped Bridge of Dreams; Dan Hurlin’s Hiroshima Maiden; Fred Ho and Ruth Margraff’s She Wolf; Roman Paska’s Arden/Ardennes; Bill T. Jones' Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Ping Chong's Deshima and Elephant Memories. Currently Dawn is an Artist-in-Residence at Fordham Theatre Dept., Co-Director of the Theatre Devising Intensive at Bard College Berlin and guest teacher at Juilliard, Princeton and NTI.