Amon Miyamoto

Amon Miyamoto (宮本亜門, born January 4, 1958 in Tokyo) is a Japanese director of musicals, operas, plays, kabuki and other art genres. He has directed over 110 productions (incl. revivals) worldwide, and 2017 marks his 30th anniversary as a director.

Miyamoto made his directing debut with his original musical I Got Merman, winning the National Performing Arts Festival Award. In 2004, he became the first Asian director on Broadway for his staging of the musical Pacific Overtures which received four Tony Award nominations. He made his North American opera-directing debut in 2007 with Tan Dun's TEA: A Mirror of Soul (U.S. premiere) at the Santa Fe Opera. In Europe, he directed Mozart's The Magic Flute at Landestheater Linz in Austria in 2013. He served as the inaugural Artistic Director of Kanagawa Arts Theater (KAAT) from 2010 to 2014. He is a recipient of the Matsuyo Akimoto Award of the Asahi Performing Arts Awards.

Beginning his career in theater as an actor and choreographer, Amon Miyamoto studied in London and New York for two years. Upon his return to Japan in 1987, he made his directing debut with his original musical I Got Merman, winning the National Performing Arts Festival Award, the most prestigious theatrical award in Japan.

In 2004, Miyamoto became the first Asian director on Broadway for his staging of Pacific Overtures which received four Tony Award nominations. In 2008, he conceived and directed Up in the Air, a new musical composed by Henry Krieger, which premiered at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Other overseas credits include: Tan Dun’s Opera TEA: A Mirror of Soul at The Santa Fe Opera in 2007, The Opera Company of Philadelphia in 2010, and the Vancouver Opera in May 2013; The Fantasticks in London’s West End at the Duchess Theatre in June 2010; The Temple of The Golden Pavilion, a play based on the novel by Yukio Mishima, which was invited to Lincoln Center Festival in NY in July 2011; Mozart's opera DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (The Magic Flute) at Landestheater Linz in Austria in September 2013; and internationally renowned Japanese taiko drumming troupe DRUM TAO's DRUM HEART at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York in February 2016.

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