Oriza HirataOriza Hirata is artistic director of the Seinendan Theatre Company, which he founded in 1983 while still in college. Besides his own plays, which tour both in Japan and abroad, he is a director of other playwrights' work and an influential comentator on contemporary social and political issues. At present, Hirata is research professor of the COI Research Promotion Office at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Read More Read Less