Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill

male, deceased (1953)
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was a Nobel-prize winning American playwright. More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced American drama to the...
Tadashi Suzuki

Tadashi Suzuki

male
Tadashi Suzuki is a theatrical director, writer and philosopher working out of Toga, Toyama, Japan. Suzuki is the founder and director of the...
Royall Tyler

Royall Tyler

male
Royall Tyler (b. 1936), a descendant of the American playwright Royall Tyler (1757-1826), retired in 2000 from the Australian National University....
Yukio Ninagawa

Yukio Ninagawa

male, 74 years old
Yukio Ninagawa is a Japanese theatre director, particularly known for his Japanese language productions of Shakespeare plays and Greek tragedies....
Ashikaga Yoshimasa

Ashikaga Yoshimasa

male, deceased (1490)
was the 8th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1449 to 1473 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshimasa was the son of the sixth...
Hideo Kanze

Hideo Kanze

male, deceased (2007)
was a Japanese actor and director, who specialized in the Noh form of musical drama. He was the second son of Tetsunojo Kanze VII, a descendent of...

Jay Rubin

male, 68 years old
Jay Rubin is one of the main translators into English of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. He also wrote a guide to Japanese,...
Saito Musashibo Benkei

Saito Musashibo Benkei

male, deceased (1189)
Saito Musashibo Benkei, popularly called Benkei (弁慶), was a Sohei (warrior monk) who served Minamoto no Yoshitsune. He is commonly depicted as a ma...
Akimitsu Takagi

Akimitsu Takagi

male, deceased (1995)
was the pen-name of a popular Japanese crime fiction writer in Showa period Japan. His real name was Takagi Seiichi.
Shimomura Kanzan

Shimomura Kanzan

male, deceased (1930)
was the pseudonym of a nihonga painter in Meiji through to the early Showa period Japan. His real name was Shimomura Seizaburō. Kanzan was born in 1...