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toshiji takeshima.com

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Toshiji Takeshima / Actor, Performer　

In both his silence and his speech, Takeshima embodies the exotic culture in which Williams’ play is set, reacting beautifully to the many barriers of language and culture. -Show business weekly-

Toshiji Takeshima's realistic performance -Theatre Scene.net-

Toshiji Takeshima is agile and lithe as The Prince, and exhibits a glee when swinging a sword straight out of Kurosawa -Times Union-

Takeshima combines the skills of a dancer with the insights of an actor to engage the audience by forcing them to look beyond the story and believe the situation

His performance lifts everyone - Once the heroic prince appears to provide a needed energy boost, the stoic characters created in act one come alive as does the story -The Record-

Takeshima mostly an observer in the story, and does an excellent job in a role that allows for no poetic licence. -Egge New York-

an engaging Toshiji Takeshima provide most of the evening's interest -NYconstage-

竹嶋利仁 (タケシマトシジ）／　俳優 SAG-AFTRA (全米映画俳優組合員）AEA（舞台俳優協会員）

東京生まれ。

幼少８歳の頃から気がついたら地元の舞台で主役をつとめていた。この人生でたくさんの経験をしてみたいんです。やりたいこと統べてやり尽くすには３００年あってもたりないかもしれません’’（Hanako,2005,10月号）の言葉通り演劇以外にもラフティング世界大会出場、クラウンパフォーマンス、コラムの掲載など活躍は多岐にわたっている。

７年半の日本でのTV、映画、舞台などの活動を経て拠点をNYに移す。舞台欲望という名の電車（スタンリー役), In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (テネシーウィリアムス), Summer folk（マクシムゴーキー), Three Sisters (チェーコフ), 王様と私（ルンタ役、ロジャース＆ハマースタイン)、The Shanghai Gesture（オフブロードウェイ), ねじまき鳥クロニクル／村上春樹（エジンバラ国際フェスティバル -UK、シンガポールアーツフェスティバル）などで主要な役を演じているほか映画、 TVシリーズ How To Make It In America (HBO) Cashmere Mafia (ABC)などにも出演。コマーシャルにおいてはスパイクジョーンズの演出でブラッドピットと共演。渡米６年後、ハロルドプリンス（演出家、プロデューサー、２１度のトニー賞受賞）、ロバートカルフィン（ブロードウェイ演出家）、ティナチェン（ゴールデングローブ賞ノミネート）、オースティンペンデルトン（演出家／ブロードウェイ、ハリウッド俳優）、西田敏行氏などの推薦により俳優としての永住が認められアメリカを中心に活躍している。

WHAT'S NEW

May 25 and 26, 2012

Toshiji just booked for the Singapore tour of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami in the Singapore Arts Festival 2012 (the biggest theatre festival in Asia).

April 2012〜

Toshiji will be on TV in Japan for Clean Clean PC comercial (as the businessman) from April 2012

March 28, 2012

Filmed a music video, Maribel-"Pretty Nights" directed by Mona Fastvold

March 21, 2012

Toshiji will appear as Yoichi in 9/11 story "Sekai Gyouten News Special -The Worlds Astonishing News"(reenactment TV drama) NTV in Japan

日本テレビ　ザ•世界仰天ニューススペシャルの９／１１アメリカ同時多発テロの物語に夫、杉山陽一さん役で出演します。

March 11, 2012

The Shinsai (Erthquake) charity reading at La mama, 47 Great Jones Street in NYC supported by the Public Theatre

FEBRUARY 8-25, 2012

Toshiji will appear as Yoshi in "THE OLD HOUSE" By Peter Coston (dir. Laura Esterman) at the HB Playwrights Theatre in New York. February 8-25

November~ 2011

Now, You can see Toshiji's print advertisement (as the boyfriend) at Crate & Barrel stores (North America)!

OCTBER 2011

Benefit for The Dramatic Question Theatre Oct 6th (Thursday) at the Soho Playhouse 15 Vandam Street

AUGUST 2011

World premiere of "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" at the King's Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland in August 20-24, 2011.

World Premiere. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage and a dramatic revelation of long buried Second World War

secrets. Adapted from the award-winning novel by Haruki Murakami, this truly imaginative production combines performance, music, puppetry, dance and film to create a
hypnotic theatre of dreams. Performed in English and Japanese with English supertitles.
http://www.eif.co.uk/wubc

Highlights

JUNE 2010

Toshiji just completed shooting for a short film "Hungry For Gold" as a figure skater (husband) for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a prevention campaign about malnutrition of young athletes.

MARCH2010

Toshiji appeared in the HBO series "HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA" (Episode #8, Never Say Die) as a JAPANESE HIPSTER together with Bryan Greenberg and Victor Rasuk. On air - April 4th!!

http://www.hbo.com/#/how-to-make-it-in-america/episodes/1/08-never-say-die/slideshow.html/eNo1jTEKwkAQAAmBgH7B5jqxWE87CVhIevELi7d4i5fbeLuJpvTnprEdZph1V8f6tZs4kFwyptn43kk2+thWUvijGz7oij3V0mxwNBkSzmcrIzVV8-U+yhtMoMcnARtwhsUtfEdPA6sEUn-0hxNkmqiA4gyByWtarrq0+2h98q51GrFQ6wZRcyarqvoBVc02tw==

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