11 Facts About Oriza Hirata

Oriza Hirata is a Japanese playwright, director, and academic.

Oriza Hirata graduated from International Christian University as a part of their Humanities division.

Oriza Hirata is known for doing international collaborations both in Japan and all around the world, where he has worked with a multitude of playwrights and artists to introduce his own work to new audiences, as well as introduce foreign work to Japan.

Oriza Hirata worked at Obirin University for six years as a professor in their theater department before moving onto Osaka University, where he works in their communication-design and robotics departments.

Oriza Hirata has worked closely with international actors when translating his work to preserve the Japanese identity of the speech, which has particularly resonated with French audiences.

Oriza Hirata has participated in designing university classes that emphasize the communication environment for different fields in order for them to perform more successfully.

For robotics, Oriza Hirata used his theater experience to attempt to make robots that act similarly to humans.

Oriza Hirata has collaborated with robotics expert Hiroshi Ishiguro for his theatrical experiments using robots.

Japan Society's theater series, Japanese Theatre NOW, has helped bring a number of contemporary Japanese dramas to the United States, Oriza Hirata's being notable since Tokyo Notes was one of the first.

Oriza Hirata has collaborated on many international works inside of Japan, using his theater to stage plays by playwrights from France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the United States, Korea, and China.

Oriza Hirata's play, entitled "Sayonara II", tells the story of a partially-broken robot who is asked to read poems to the people who died after the disaster.