Natsuko Ohama

AEA Member
Natsuko Ohama

Mother Cai, Nurse Wong and Ensemble in Snow in Midsummer; Black Swan Lab

Other theatres: Polonius in Hamlet, Prospero in The Tempest (Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company); Imelda Marcos in Dogeaters (Kirk Douglas Theatre); Winnie in Happy Days (Boston Court Theatre); Manhattan Theatre Club; Mark Taper Forum; Primary Stages, Yale Repertory Theatre; Theatre Passe Muraille; NATTCO; East West Players; others. 

Film/TV: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Speed, Forever Night, Hot Summer Winds, Obachan’s Garden; others. 

Other: Founder, Shakespeare and Company; Senior Artist, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre; former Director of Training, National Arts Center of Canada;  The Company of Women. Teaching: Head of Voice Progression MFA Program, USC; NYU; CalArts; Columbia University; Sundance Theatre Lab; New Actors Workshop; Stratford Festival; Wooster Group Summer Institute. International: Shanghai, Italy, Istanbul and Scotland.  Directing: Macbeth 3 (HERE); co-director, Hamlet and Much Ado about Nothing (Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company); The Press, FACE (Visions and Voices at USC), others.  

Awards: Drama Desk nominated Actress, Sound of a Voice (Public Theater); Playwright’s Arena Outstanding Contribution to Los Angeles Theatre. 

Training: Working Theater New York with Kristin Linklater, Peter Kass and Joseph Chaikin.  

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