13 Facts About Rio Kishida

Rio Kishida was a Japanese playwright and director.

Rio Kishida wrote several plays about women and the problems they faced in a patriarchal society that run parallel with the second wave of the feminist movement in Japan.

In 1974, Rio Kishida graduated from the Law School of Chuo University.

Rio Kishida was qualified for the bar, but instead chose to join Shuji Terayama's theater company Tenjo Sajiki.

Rio Kishida collaborated with Terayama, who she viewed as a mentor, in writing Shintokumaru, The Audience Seats, and Lemmings.

Rio Kishida wanted to write plays about women and issues that they faced against as the main focus.

Rio Kishida changed the name of her theater company to The Rio Kishida Office after she had left Tenjo Sajiki in 1981.

Rio Kishida began to write her plays independently again after 1993 with her company, The Kishida Rio Company.

In 1997, Rio Kishida wrote Lear and Ong Keng Sen was the director of the play.

Rio Kishida wrote her own version of Othello in 2001 called Desdemona.

Rio Kishida became the lead organizer of 3rd Asian Women's Theatre Conference after Kahoru Kisaragi died in 2001.

Rio Kishida died on June 28,2003, at a hospital in Okaya.

Many people collaborated in creating the play that experimented with multiple authorship, but Rio Kishida was responsible for writing a large portion of the play, including the public bath sequence.