ROHM Theatre Kyoto Repertory Premiere: ‘Hopes’

Yuya Nishida (Gekidan Furosya／Playwright, Director)

Yuya Nishida was born in Tokyo in 1993 and raised in Toyama Prefecture. 
He is a representative of Gekidan Furosya, and he is a playwright and a director.
Also, he is an artistic director of the art community space KAIKA.
His plays are characterized by their comical and grotesque depiction of the distorted human relationships that lie hidden in modern society, combining high culture and local culture, fear and laughter in a hybrid way. He is currently studying at Kyoto University Graduate School. Alongside his creative work, he conducts research into the dramatic techniques of the British playwright Harold Pinter. 
He joined the theater company “Seinendan” in 2021. 
In 2024, he launched the movement “Nishibi”, which focuses on “the revival and rethinking of the Kansai performing arts scene”.
His major awards include the Best Director Award at the Kansai Theater Festival 2021, the Excellence Award at the Young Director’s Competition 2022, and the Best Director Award and Audience Award at the Theater People Competition 2024.
He has a fellowship with the Saison Foundation from 2025.

About Gekidan Furosya
Gekidan Furosya is founded in 2015 by Yuya Nishida. The company is based at Osaka University. Since 2022, it has been active as an Associate Company of KAIKA, based in Kyoto. In recent years, they have been working on the “Collective Violence Series”, which is set in closed communities such as collective farms and exploitative enterprise. Also, they have performed the “FLOW series”, which is an experimental framework.
As a result of “MUMBLE -Mogumogu Mogomogo-” which was performed in the “ROHM Theatre Kyoto and Kyoto Art Center U35 Creative Support Program ‘KIPPU’” in 2023, won the Excellence Award and Audience’s Choice Award at the 2nd Kansai Drama Awards, the HOPE Award at the 1st Japan Midori no Yubi Performing Arts Awards, and the Encouragement Award (Kenshiro Nigruma) at the 26th Kansai Modern Drama Awards.
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Masato Nomura(RETRONYM／Director)

Born in 1991. Based in Kyoto, Japan.
Working as a stage director since 2016. Member of the art collective “RETRONYM.” He creates and presents performances, video works and texts both inside and outside of theaters, with motifs based on the human psyche and experiences. Taking the introduction of theatrical elements into the actual relationships between people, places, and environments as a starting point, he develops a diverse range of activities that are not limited to the production of works. In recent years, I have been working on artworks and projects based on fieldwork on graves in the Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture, and research in psychiatric and elderly care facilities. He has also participated as an actor and assistant director in works by Takuya Murakawa and Kuro Tanino. 2024 ACY Artist Fellows.
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About RETRONYM
RETRONYM is the art collective team formed by three members: Semon Seto (actor), Momo Takechi (artist), and Masato Nomura (director). Formerly known as the Theater SOKUDO (2016-2021), they changed their way of gathering and became RETRONYM in 2022. Based on keywords such as the audience and the audience seats, which are the concerns of each member, they issue the group magazine “Super Relax” in free paper, curate special exhibitions, hold group exhibitions, and produce performances.
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