Playwright / Director Toshiki Okada (Yokohama, 1973) formed the theatre company chelfitsch in 1997. Since then, he has written and directed all of the company's productions, developing a distinctive methodology for creating plays, and has come to be known for his use of hyper-colloquial Japanese and unique choreography. From 2016, he directed works in a repertoire programme with Münchner Kammerspiele for four consecutive seasons.
Major work
2004 Five Days in March
2008 Freetime
2009 Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech
2013 Grand and Floor
2014 Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich
2015 God Bless Baseball
2018 Beach, Eyelids, and Curtains: chelfitsch's EIZO-Theater
2018 Pratthana - A Portrait of Possession
2019 Eraser Mountain
2019 The Vacuum Cleaner
2020 Eraser Forest
2022 Doughnuts
Previously at the Holland Festival
2011 Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech
2015 The End
Awards
2005 49th Kishida Kunio Drama Award for Five Days in March
2008 Oe Kenzaburo Prize for the novel The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed
2011 Critics’ award from the Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre in Montreal for Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech
2020 Theatertreffen 2020, Berliner Festspiele: The Vacuum Cleaner
2020 27th Yomiuri Theater Awards - selection committee Special Prize: Pratthana – A Portrait of Possession
2021 72nd Yomiuri Bungaku-sho (prize for literature), Tsuruya Namboku Drama Award for Unfulfilled Ghost and Monster - ZAHA / TSURUGA
2022 Director Award of The 29th Yomiuri Theater Awards by Unfulfilled Ghost and Monster - ZAHA / TSURUGA and Yuzuru (Twilight
Crane)
2022 Theatertreffen 2022, Berliner Festspiele: Doughnuts
2022 35th Mishima Yukio-sho (prize for literature) for Broccoli Revolution