Creators’ Cradle Circuit — あるアイデアとしてCreators’ Cradle Circuit — An Idea

Sekar Putri Handayani works based on freelance production manager in performing arts field since 2017. Now, she is an independent producer (since 2014) and general manager in Rumah Banjarsari, a Public and Art Space (since 2017) in Solo, Indonesia. As an independent producer, she works especially on dance production. She is now intensively work with a young choreographer from Banyumas, Indonesia, to develop work based on research and combining method between script material and exploration-improvisation. In Rumah Banjarsari, since it is a new space, she needs to do research to know how it works for the communities and artists.

Soh Chong Hong is a producer, project manager, stage manager, project coordinator in Malaysia’s performing arts field. Sometimes you will find him ushering in the hall, shifting the set on the dark stage, ironing costumes in the dressing room, calling cues in the control room. Having performed in numerous concerts since the age of 13 fuelled his passion for the performing arts. He later enrolled in New Era College’s Drama and Visuals Department where he majored in Theatre. He is now the executive director of a stage performance & event consultant company Jig & Giggle Production. He believes that the performing arts is a powerful tool to communicate with the community and stimulate creativity. He indulges in it.

Project manager for Performing Arts Division at The Museum of Art, Kochi, since December 2016, where producing diverse productions from Japan and abroad at Museum Hall (399 seats). After completed MA in Scenography, Matsumoto gained production experiences at NPO Kaibunsha between 2009 and 2015 through artist management (Akira Kasai, Ko Murobushi, Setsuko Yamada and Shomyo no Kai) as well as producing oversea productions and operating NEXTREAM21. While briefly freelancing, she worked for TPAM in Yokohama, Dance New Air, and chelfitsch’s Europe tour.

Selected by Forbes Vietnam “30 Under 30” in 2015 for pioneering achievements in musical theatre, PPAN (Phi Phi Anh Nguyen) wrote, directed, and produced a series of sold-out jukebox musicals from 2012 to 2017 to critical acclaim and commercial success in Hanoi. Currently PPAN works as an executive director and showrunner for Vintata Animation Studio, with plans to expand his artistic endeavors not only as an artist or a producer, but also as a mediator and a researcher.

Andrei Nikolai Pamintuan is a director and producer. He has divided his time between Manila and the U.S., taking on various roles in non-profit theater, festivals, cultural organizations and other art related fields. He is the Festival Director and Founder of Fringe Manila, a multi-genre international art festival that inaugurated in February of 2015. He is currently the Creative Director of Pineapple Lab, a creative hub that features contemporary performances and interdisciplinary arts.

Yuka Sugiyama has been exploring performing arts in theory and practice by focusing on body and space. After completing MA in Performance at Queen Mary University of London, she worked at Festival/Tokyo being in charge of program research and international program and currently is working as a project manager at Slow Label. She also organises an experimental lecture series “The Theatre Theory of the Apes” by a theatre critic Mr. Hidenaga Otori, and developes the international collaboration project “Saloon Tokyo” with extrapole based in Paris.

After graduating from the Faculty of Mass Communication Technology Advertising and Public Relations at Rajamangala University of Technology Phranakhon, Vongsrisawat worked at a production house in Thailand and developed her career from production manager, producer of television programs about art, culture, and documentary, and then to assistant station manager of marketing and public relations at RAMA Channel in 2015. ​She joined the field of performing arts as assistant producer and made visual media materials of a dance festival during 2013 to 2015 and also 2017. ​Currently, she produces television programs, film documentaries, television commercials, and more. She serves as the assistant producer for the international collaboration project between Thai author Uthis Haemamool, other Thai artists, and Japanese theater director Toshiki Okada.

Kenta Yamazaki is a theatre critic. He is currently Research Associate at the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University in Japan. He publishes the theatre critic magazine, SHI-HAI, which includes newly written dramas and critical essays for the dramas (which is a unique style in Japan). He also writes short reviews on performing arts on the web magazine, Artscape, monthly.