Tetsuro Shigematsu
Tetsuro Shigematsu | |
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| Born | February 26, 1971 vlogging |
| Relatives | 2 children and wife |
| Website | shiggy |
Tetsuro Shigematsu (born 1971) is a playwright/performer,
Early life
Shigematsu was born in
In 1991, at the age of 19, Shigematsu became the youngest playwright to compete in the history of the Quebec Drama Festival.[1]
Career
From 1993 to 1996, Shigematsu wrote and performed his one-man show Rising Son in Montreal,
In 1996, he starred with George Takei (Star Trek's Sulu) in the television movie Rinko The Best Bad Thing, based on the novel by Yoshiko Uchida. That same year, Tetsuro began hosting the Montreal Asian Heritage Festival.
In 1997, he created and produced three episodes of La La Pan-Asia, a half-hour TV show showcasing Asian youth culture. In 1998, he was awarded a Canada Council grant to write a new play, The Moons of Tokyo. In 1999, Shigematsu was invited to be artist-in-residence at Technoboro, an artist-run media lab.
His video work has been seen in the Montreal World Film Festival and the Biosphere and won the Prix du Public at the Evénement Interuniversitaire d'Art.
In 2007, Shigematsu completed his feature film debut, Yellow Fellas, which he wrote and directed.
In 2009, Shigematsu appeared in Episode 2 of the TV series Deadliest Warrior as one of the experts for the Samurai team. In 2010, he returned for the Deadliest Warrior "Back for Blood" special, a transition from season one to season two pitting the winning warriors from season one against one another.
In 2011, Shigematsu gave a TEDx talk called The Awesomeness of Your Contradictions.
In 2011, Shigematsu began his PhD within the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. He conducts research on social media, with a focus on the rising visibility of diasporic Asians on YouTube, for which he was named a Vanier scholar.
In 2012, Shigematsu began writing for
In 2015, Shigematsu's theatrical solo work Empire of the Son had its world premiere at The Cultch in Vancouver. The entire run sold out prior to opening, an unprecedented feat for the world premiere of a Canadian play,.[3] The Vancouver Sun named it as the best theatre show of 2015.[4] The 2016 remount also sold out its run prior to opening.
In October 2017, Shigematsu's next solo work, 1 Hour Photo, had its world premiere at The Cultch in Vancouver. 1 Hour Photo was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2019 Governor General's Awards.[5]
Personal life
Shigematsu speaks English, French, Japanese, and Persian. He has two children.[2]
References
- ^ a b Greenaway, John Endo (November 7, 2008). "Tetsuro Shigematsu : renaissance samurai". The Bulletin. Archived from the original on November 14, 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- ^ a b Alivojvodic, Nicole (October 6, 2015). "Transcending the generational and cultural gap". The Source. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
- ^ Warner, Andrea (October 16, 2016). The Georgia Straight. Retrieved May 14, 2017. https://www.straight.com/arts/816346/tetsuro-shigematsus-empire-son-strikes-back
- ^ Erika Thorkelson, "Best of 2015: Top 10 theatre experiences". Vancouver Sun, December 30, 2015.
- ^ "Michael Crummey among fiction finalists for Governor General's Literary Awards". CTV News, October 2, 2019.