Shintaro Fujii is a professor in theatre studies and currently the chief of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He specialises in contemporary performing arts, with a focus on francophone countries (France, Belgium and Canada) and Japan. He works on dramaturgy of the works of prominent artists such as Romeo Castellucci, Alain Platel, Robert Lepage and Dumb Type, as well as on cultural policies concerning performing arts.
Shintaro has been the co-editor of Creative Force in the Postdramatic Age, Hakusuisha, 2014 (an anthology of interviews with artists such as Romeo Castellucci, Gisèle Vienne and Rimini Protokoll); Arts and Their Environment, Ronsosha, 2012 (an anthology of essays on national and international cultural policies); Théâtre/Public, no 198, “Scènes françaises, scènes japonaises : allers-retours”, 2010 (a special issue of a French theatre review on exchange in theatre between Japan and France); and Keywords in Theatre Studies, Pelicansha, 2007. In 2013, he was the initiator and director of a pilot project “Training Programme in Dramaturgy” at Waseda University, the first attempt of its kind in Japan, with the funding from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.
Shintaro also translates plays, mostly from French into Japanese. Among them is Incendies (Scorched) by Wajdi Mouawad, for which he received in 2015 the prestigious Odashima Yushi Award for Drama Translation.
Last Updated: 2016