Okada Toshiki

Okada Toshiki is a playwright, novelist, and the director of the theater company chelfitsch. In 2005, he received the 49th Kishida Kunio Drama Award for Five Days in March. In 2007, he participated in the Kunstenfestivaldesarts with his work Five Days in March. Since this debut of his work overseas, he has continued to present works not only domestically but also internationally, putting on performances in over 90 cities across Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Since 2016, he has also consistently created and directed works in a repertory program at a renowned public theater in Germany. In 2020, his work The Vacuum Cleaner (Münchner Kammerspiele) and in 2022, Doughnuts (Thalia Theater, Hamburg) were selected as part of the Berliner Theatertreffen’s “10 Remarkable Productions.” As a novelist, he published The End of the Moment We Had (2007, Shinchōsha), Broccoli Revolution (2022, Shinchōsha). He was appointed as the Artistic Director of the Performing Arts Festival: Autumn Meteorite Tokyo in 2025 and the Artistic Director of Performing Arts at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in 2026.Last Updated: 2026.07