Saito Ren

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Contributor Saito Ren
Gender Male
Functions Playwright, Curator
Notes Saito was born in Pyongyang, North Korea. After graduating from the Haiyuza theater's acting school in 1966, he formed the Jiyu Gekijo theater company with Kushida Kazuyoshi and others until becoming freelance in 1969. In 1980 he won the Kishida Drama Award for Jiyu Gekijo's production of Shanhai bansu kingu (Shanghai Vance King). Other plays he wrote for the same theater company include Kusuko (Kusuko), about the turbulent life of a court lady who won the favor of the emperor in the early Heian period (794¿1185) and Tasogare no bodobiru (Twilight Vaudeville), about entertainers in Tokyo's As
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Curator

John Romeril - Curator

Australian National Playwrights' Centre

Data Set AusStage
Contributor Identifier 457986