Playwright Reading – Mieko Ouchi

Mieko is an actor, writer, and director who works in theatre, film and television. Her plays The Red Priest (Eight Ways To Say Goodbye), The Blue Light, The Dada Play, Nisei Blue and I Am For You have been produced across the country and in the U.S. and have been finalists for the 4 Play Series at The Old Vic in London, the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award and the City of Edmonton Book Prize, winning the Carol Bolt Award and several Betty Awards. The plays have been translated into French, Japanese, Czech, and Russian and are published by Playwrights Canada Press. As an actor, she has performed at the Citadel Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Concrete Theatre, Persephone, Prairie Theatre Exchange, the Globe, Tarragon, the Banff Centre. Film and TV highlights include her film debut as the lead in Anne Wheeler’s The War Between Us and The Orange Seed Myth and Other Lies Mothers Tell (1998 AMPIA nomination for Lead Performance) and playing Nori Sato on the first two seasons of the Global TV Series The Guard. Mieko is the co-founder and current Artistic Director of Concrete Theatre, a professional TYA

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