Yojiro Ichikawa

YOJIRO ICHIKAWA is a theatre director, vocal coach, and an actor trained at Arts Educational Schools London, Drama Centre London, Complicité, New York Theatre Workshop, and Lincoln Center Theater.

He has worked as Vocal Consultant/Vocal Supervisor in many productions including RSC’s My Neighbour Totoro (Barbican Theatre), Allegiance (Charing Cross Theatre), Titanic (Japan Tour), Tell Me on a Sunday (New National Theatre Tokyo) and Tinker Bell in Shoji-land (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre).

He has also worked as Principal Puppeteer on the RSC’s My Neighbour Totoro (Barbican Theatre), as Dramaturg on Your Lie in April (Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Harold Pinter Theatre), as Performer on Death Note (London Palladium, Lyric Theatre), and Performer in Marco Polo the musical (Shaw Theatre).

His directing credits include Tell Me On A Sunday (New National Theatre Tokyo, Yomiuri Drama Award), The View Upstairs (Nihon Seinenkan Hall Tokyo, Odajima Drama Translation Award), Pariah, The Soldier’s Tale (Chautauqua Theater Company), Letter from the Sea (Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz, Poland & New National Theatre Tokyo), Ordinary Days (The Access Theater, New York & Bridewell Theatre), and John & Jen (Yomiuri Otemachi Hall Tokyo). He is a recipient of the 2025 Drama League Directors Project.