NAOMI
IIZUKA
Naomi Iizuka's plays include 36 Views, Polaroid Stories, Anon(ymous), Language of Angels, Aloha Say the Pretty Girls, Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West, At the Vanishing Point, What Happens Next, Ghostwritten, After A Hundred Years, Sleep, Citizen 13559, 17 Reasons Why, The Last Firefly, Tattoo Girl, and Skin.
Her work has been produced at the Magic Theatre, The Public, Berkeley Rep, the Goodman, the Guthrie, Actors Theatre of Louisville, La Jolla Playhouse, Children’s Theatre Company, Campo Santo, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and other theatres across the country.
TV credits include Victoria (upcoming on Hulu), Terminal List, Dark Wolf (Amazon), The Sympathizer (HBO), Bosch Legacy (Amazon), Tokyo Vice (HBO), and The Terror (AMC).
She is an alumna of New Dramatists and a recipient of a Hermitage Major Theatre Award, an Alpert Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a United States Artists Creative Impact Award, and a PEN/Laura Pels Award. She was a Berlind Playwright-in-Residence at Princeton. Naomi heads the MFA Playwriting program at UC San Diego where she has been honored to work with a new generation of extraordinary playwrights.
NEW PLAYS BY
NAOMI IIZUKA
OKUNI
Okuni is a musical based on the real-life story of a woman named Okuni who created Kabuki and then was forgotten by history for centuries. Bringing the world of 17th century Japan to life with pop music and drag, Okuni explores the life of an artist who made theatre in the dry riverbeds of Kyoto, became the voice of the city's outcasts, the teahouse girls, and the masterless samurai, and eventually went toe to toe with the authoritarian regime in power as they tried to appropriate her work and ultimately silence her.
Composer: PAUL HODGE
