Haruka Ueda
Haruka Ueda (she/her) is a playwright, actor, and translator based in Tokyo. She began translating and interpreting in the arts after gaining hands-on experience as an Art Translator Assistant at the Tokyo Festival Farm in 2021. She served as dramaturg and Japanese cultural consultant for Tokyo Rose A New Musical (Burnt Lemon Theatre Co.) and is an alumna of the BIPOC Critics Lab. BA: Wellesley College (English). Acting: National Theater Institute at the O’Neill, The Film School of Tokyo.

Ulin Miula
Ulin Miula is a director, playwright, and photographer. Known for drawing unfamiliar and abstract language into the everyday, she writes creative adaptations of existing plays and poetry, and stages both her own works and others. In 2016, her direction received the Audience Award at the Toga Theatre Artists Competition. Since 2020, she has been creating installation works and “spatial theatre” without live performers, exploring theatrical methods outside performance. Her recent work focuses on non-Western approaches to theatre-making, and new forms of collective creation aligned with her identity, cultural sensibility, and contemporary conditions.

Mizuhito Kuroda
Mizuhito Kuroda (b.1988) is a director and the chair of Gecko Parade. Taking classic texts outside of the theater, he creates site-specific works in the midst of cities, towns, and the everyday lives of their inhabitants. Recent works include, “Biomass Macbeth” (Maniwa Biomass Powerplant, Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama, 2024), and “Faust” (Bunshokan, Yamagata Biennale, 2022). He spent six years of his childhood in Australia, where he attended a local school.

Keith Spencer
Keith Spencer is a visual artist from New Mexico. His paintings address fundamental relationships between people and place, and have been recognized by The Japan America Society of Chicago and The Japan Foundation in Mexico. After obtaining his undergraduate degree, Keith spent much of the next ten years living and working in Japan before returning to North America to complete his graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Since then, Keith has been based in Kyoto where he brings his background in literature and creative writing, as well as his perspective as a practicing artist, to his translation work supporting artists, galleries, and other creative projects.

Eriko Amo
Eriko Amo has worked extensively in corporate accounting and tax affairs and is the founder of the Specified Nonprofit Corporation Art’sEmbrace, where she serves as Vice Chairperson. From 2015-2022, she was involved in the administrative and back-office operations of art projects at TURN in Tokyo. Guided by her motto of being an “accountant who is on the scene,” Amo is a member of PARADISE AIR, an artist-in-residence program, and Art Translators Collective, an organization specializing in interpretation and translation in the arts. Since September 2025, she has been part of the Accounting Office at Kiten Inc., where she continues to provide accounting services for art projects.

Yuki Harukawa
Yuki Harukawa is a Japanese–English interpreter and translator specializing in arts and culture. After working at a Japanese company, she completed vocational training and began her freelance career. She served as an Art Translator Assistant for the Asian Performing Arts Farm (APAF) at Tokyo Festival 2020. Approaching interpreting and translation as creative practices, Yuki is attentive to positionality and dynamics, and seeks to foster communication environments that uphold the dignity of all participants. She has been a member of Art Translators Collective since 2020.