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About Mamoru Iriguchi

He works as theatre designer, graphic designer and performance maker.

Mamoru originally trained as a zoologist and secondly as a theatre designer which he has been since then. As a zoologist and theatre designer, Mamoru’s main interest remains in communication within a society (or performers + audiences) as a device for its members to ensure shared perception and/or interpretation of their environment (or narrative structure). His other interests include gender and sexuality, and fairytales and evolution theories.

His theatre design work include MINCEMEAT (Cardboard Citizens, Cordy House, Shoreditch -- winner Best Design, Evening Standard Theatre Awards),The Face of Jizo (Ichiza, Arcola Theatre), Down/Out (Cardboard Citizens, Laban Centre), The Wind in the Willows (Open Air Theatre Regents Park) and The Pink Bits (Mapping4D, Riversides Studios -- winner, Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Award).

He started to create solo work in 2008. Mamoru’s first solo show "PREGNANT?!" enjoyed its work-in-progress showcase at leading venues and festivals including SPILL Festival National Platform, Sprint Festival (Camden People's Theare), Shunt, The Basement, BAC, Stoke Newington International Airport and Arnolfini. The full version has been presented at Dublin Fringe Festival (Project Arts Centre), British Performance Festival (pad, Mainz, Germany) and deciBel 2009 (The Greenroom, Manchester).

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