Mimi Katano
交野 みみ
Director - Choreographer - Producer
Producing
Mimi has been in a leadership role at Youth Theatre Northwest since 2003 and has produced over 300 shows for youth actors and audiences. She strives to find material that will be a good training vehicle for students and an interesting artistic challenge for the professional design team. This has included some original commissioned work, collaborations with other organizations, sight-specific pieces, and tours.
japan project
Mimi has worked with Piccolo Theatre of Kobe, Marguerite Theatre of Nagoya, and Joy Kids Theatre of Tokyo in giving workshops for teaching artists, students, and professional actors. She has brought a Kamishibai (traditional Japanese paper theatre) performer to Seattle in 2018 and 2022 and managed his tour and served as a live translator. The number of audience reached from this tours were nearly 2,000. In 2019, she brought 2 teaching artists from Seattle to do a series of workshops. She hopes to grow collaboration opportunities across the Pacific.
Translation &Consulting
Mimi has done a number of cultural consulting for a variety or organizations including: North West Asian American Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, and Seattle Children's Museum.
Mimi also does written translation work specifically Japanese to English, specializing in dialogue and humor.
Mimi also can do live interpretation in
Japanese/English in Theatrical setting or non-specialized conversation.