Shiro MaedaShiro Maeda is a Playwright, Director, Novelist, Film director, Screenwriter and Actor. Maeda founded the theatre company GOTANNDADAN in 1997 while he was a university student. He won the 52nd Kishida Drama Award for “Isn’t Anyone Alive?” (200). As a novelist, he won the 22nd Mishima Yukio Prize for “The Mermen of Summer Water” (2009) and was nominated for the 137th Akutagawa Prize for “The Great Life Adventure” (2007) and again for the 158th Akutagawa Prize for “Triple Bind” (2017). He also won the 46th Galaxy Award for Excellence for his teleplay for the NHK drama “Shopping” (2009) and the Mukouda Kuniko Award for his script for the NHK drama “Seven
Minutes on Foot” (2015). Read More Read Less