Hidenaga Otori
Born in 1948 in Shizuoka. Theatre critic and researcher. Graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology’s School of Engineering with a Master’s degree from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Letters. Committee member at Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), artistic director for Laocoon Festival (Kampnagel, Hamburg), and associate director at the Kyoto Performing Arts Center at Kyoto University of the Arts. Written works include The 20th Century Polyphonic Art Theater (The Asahi Shimbun) and co-authoring Reverberation Machines: The World of Richard Foreman (Keiso Shobo). Translator of Tadeusz Kantor’s Let the Artists Die (Sakuhinsha) among other works. Currently working on “Hidenaga Otori’s Monkey Drama Theory for Provocation and Brainwashing.”