AKIKO FUJIWARA was born in New York but grew up in Tokyo, where she studied acting at the United Performer’s Studio Academy and received a degree in engineering at Keio University. She returned to New York to pursue her MFA in Acting at the Actors Studio Drama School. Akiko has trained extensively in street dance and was a member of a major dance team in Japan, Dancing Crew JADE. She is fluent in English and Japanese, and has performed in both languages.
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| AKIKO FUJIWARA | ||||||||
| www.akikofujiwara.com | ||||||||
| Height: 5’3” | ||||||||
| akiko.fujiwara@hotmail.com | Weight: 115lb | |||||||
| THEATER | ||||||||
| Death of the Moon* | The Moon | The Brick Theater | Lavinia Roberts | |||||
| The Twine* | Ariadne | The Secret Theatre | Lavinia Roberts | |||||
| Top Girls | Lady Nijo / Kit | Dance New Amsterdam | Kaitlyn Samuel | |||||
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Moth | Shinjuku Space 107 | Yoko Narahashi | |||||
| Mienai Hana* | Kim | UPS Tsutsujigaoka | Alice Yanagida | |||||
| EDUCATIONAL THEATER | ||||||||
| Welcome to the Moon | Shirley | Actors Studio Drama School | Jim Fagan | |||||
| Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, | ||||||||
| Beauty, and Truth | Marley | Actors Studio Drama School | Susan Aston | |||||
| Proof | Catherine | Actors Studio Drama School | Elizabeth Kemp | |||||
| The Effectof Gamma Rays On | ||||||||
| Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds | Ruth | Actors Studio Drama School | Susan Aston | |||||
| Gentle 12 | Juror #6 | UPS Academy | Daigo Tanji | |||||
| FILM/TELEVISION | ||||||||
| Father’s Trumpet | Supporting | NYU Student Film | Hamin Kim | |||||
| New York Picture Company Sketch Show | Featured | New York Picture Company | Jim Fagan | |||||
| Ketchup | Lead | Asian American Film Lab | Eldad Eitan | |||||
| War for the Web | Principal | Wild Wild Web, LLC | J. Cameron Brueckner | |||||
| Matsugo no Mizu | Supporting | The New School Student Film | Rachel Mailler | |||||
| The Light | Supporting | Hunter College Student Film | Natalia Benesz | |||||
| No Gun | Lead | Columbia Student Film | Eldad Eitan | |||||
| Haruka naru waga machi | Supporting | UPS Academy | Daigo Tanji | |||||
| EDUCATION AND TRAINING | ||||||||
| MFA, Acting | Actors Studio Drama School, Pace University; NYC | |||||||
| Acting: Elizabeth Kemp, Susan Aston, Louis Colaianni | ||||||||
| Voice: Susan Schuld, Craig Bacon, Corinna May | ||||||||
| Movement: Michael Billingsley, David Frank | ||||||||
| Dance: Vado Diomande(West African), Elizabeth Roxas (Horton Technique), Danielle Quisenberry (Ballroom) | ||||||||
| Other | United Performers Studio – UPS Academy Total Theater Training; Tokyo | |||||||
| Acting: Yoko Narahashi, Lyena Yonekura, Masayasu Nakanishi | ||||||||
| SPECIAL SKILLS | ||||||||
| Dance (Jazz, House, Hip-Hop – 9 years, Traditional Japanese Dance – 1.5 years) | ||||||||
| Read Music, Piano – 8 years, Japanese Calligraphy | ||||||||
| Language: Fluent Japanese, English | ||||||||
| * Original Work | ||||||||
