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RICK SHIOMI, Artistic Director and founding member of Theater Mu, is a playwright and director whose work is known throughout the U.S. and Canada. He is one of the leading figures in Asian American theater. Mr. Shiomi wrote and directed Mask Dance, Theater Mu's first full-length production, and directed several short works in Theater Mu's New Voices and its 1993 and 1994 New Eyes Festivals. His other plays include the award-winning Yellow Fever which played Off- Broadway, Rosie's Cafe, Play Ball and Uncle Tadao. Mr. Shiomi has worked closely as both a director and playwright with Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco, Pan Asian Repertory in New York and East West Players in Los Angeles. He has also written screenplays for film and television. Mr. Shiomi received his B.A. from the University of Toronto.

MARTHA JOHNSON, Artistic Associate and founding member of Theater Mu, is an expert on Japanese Noh theater and is currently vice president of the Association of Asian Performance, an international organization of leading academics and experts on traditional Asian performing art forms. She was co-founder and co-artistic director of the 21st Street Players, a professional experimental theater company based in the Twin Cities, where she collaborated with notable artists such as Noh actor Akira Matsui and poet Robert Bly. Ms. Johnson taught acting at the Guthrie Theatre (Outreach Dept.) from 1984-88 and is currently a professor of theater at Augsburg College. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Madison-Wisconsin.


SANDRA AGUSTIN, Artistic Associate of Theater Mu, is a professional dancer who has toured throughout the Midwest. Ms. Agustin has produced four modern dance~concerts of her own work as well as the work of several emerging choreographers. She is the Program Coordinator for Intermedia Arts Extensions program, pairing mentor artist's with emerging artists of color. Ms. Agustin has curated the Choreographer's Evening at the Walker Art Center and several Asian American Renaissance cabarets, in addition to producing her own play Some Place to Call Home at the Southern Theater. She is the recipient of a Jones Commission through the Playwrights' Center and a Travel Study Grant administered by the Jerome Foundation. Ms. Agustin has a B.S. in Dance Therapy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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