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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／ 俳優、パフォーマー
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プロのラフティングインストラクター、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。はじめは演劇を学ぶこと観ることが目的だった滞在も数々のオーディションに参加し舞台 欲望という名の電車
, 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（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（スコットランド、エジンバラ国際フェスティバル）などで主要な役を演じているほか映画
Music and Lyrics, 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を得て俳優としての永住権を取得しアメリカを中心に活躍している。
WHAT'S NEW
FEBRUARY 2012 Toshiji will appear "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 OCT 2010 The reading "The Sublet" by Alex Ladd October 11th, 2010. 8pm at the Bleecker Street Theatre
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!!
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