"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" Final run-through Rehearsal in DUMBO

"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"  is a play, based on the 1998 novel by Haruki Murakami, conceived by Stephen Earnhart, written by Greg Pierce and Stephen Earnhart. Opens Jan. 15 and will run through Jan. 30.


Cast

Akira Ito: Ushikawa/Dream Police
Ai Kiyono: Kumiko/Dream Police
Yoshihisa Kuwayama: Puppeteer/Dream Police
Mina Nishimura: Dream Police
Sophia Remolde: Puppeteer/Dream Police
James Saito: Noboru Wataya
Kristin Villanueva: May Kasahara
Akira Takayama: Lieutenant Mamiya
Toshiji Takeshima: Lounge Singer/Prank Show Host/Dream Police
Niho Tsukimura: Kumiko (film imagery)
Fergus Walsh: Puppeteer/Dream Police
Yoshihiro Watanabe: Waiter/Dream Police
James Yaegashi: Toru Okada
Stacey Yen: Creta Kano

Creative Team
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Director / Co-Writer : Stephen Earnhart
Co-Writer: Greg Pierce
Producers: Wind-UP Productions, Rafe Fogel,Guy & Lia Haskin Fernald and Pamela Lubell
General Management: Seth Goldstein, Aaron Thompson and DR Theatrical Management 
Co-Producer:  Rachel Cooper, Asia Society
Associate Producer:  Eric Gerber
Puppet Director/Scenic Design: Tom Lee 
Assistant Director/Movement Director: Karen Beaumont
Projection Designer: Adam Larsen
Lighting Designer: Laura Mroczkowski
Music & Sound Design: Jane Shaw
Music & Live Performance:  Bora Yoon
Costume Design: Oana Botez-Ban
Production Manager: Brendan Regimbal
Stage Manager: Neelam Vaswani
Assistant Stage Manager: Carmen Torres 
Assistant Stage Manager: 
Angela Hesterman 
Dramaturg:  Claudia Orenstein
Story Consultant:  Andrew Berg
Production Coordinator:  Jonathan Hinton
Casting Director: Judy Bowman
Japanese Translation: Keiko Tsuneda and Sonoko Soeda 
Butoh Choreography: Kota Yamazaki
Consulting Producers: Jennifer Costello, Erich Jungwirth, Alisa Matlovsky and 
Bonnie Stein