Performance Calendar
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    Photo by Thomas Brunot
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    Naomi Okada as Isabella in “Measure for Measure” by William Shakespeare
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    Naomi Okada as Orangutan in “Water by the Spoonful” by Quiara Alegría Hudes
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    Naomi Okada as Palace Guard in “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” by Bertolt Brecht

    Naomi Okada

    Group 53
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    The Juilliard School  

    		                                                                                                                            
    Title Character Director
    WATER BY THE SPOONFUL Orangutan Aneesha Kudtarkar
    THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE Second Doctor/Iron Shirt/ Orlando Pabotoy
      Various Characters  
    WINTERTIME Bertha Jimonn Cole
    MEASURE FOR MEASURE Isabella Stephen Brown-Fried
    THE CHERRY ORCHARD Dunyasha Richard Feldman
    THE WAY WE LIVE NOW Voice 1 Evan Yionoulis
    THE AENEID Cassandra/ Michael Perlman
      Immigration Officer/  
      Allecto  
    DAPHNE’S DIVE Jenn Lisa Benavides-Nelson
    HENRY IV, PART ONE Worcester Richard Feldman/Jenny Lord/
        Dawn Akemi Saito
    CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN, Performer Elizabeth Yeoman
      THE ACTRESS    
    JUILLIARD COMEDY HOUR Ali Wong Jenny Lord
    A MUSICAL EVENING OF Vocalist Deborah R. Lapidus
      CABARET    
    SUNDAY IN TV LAND Daisy J Rad Pereira
      (rehearsed reading)    
    UNSCRIPTED GRADS (film) Natalie Michelle Bossy
         

    Theater

    		    
    PHOEBE IN WINTER Phoebe Ava Calabrese Grob
    SMART PEOPLE Ginny Yang Betsy Zaubler
    EURYDICE Eurydice Corey Sorenson
    BFE Panny Annie Ning
    STOP KISS Sara Maggie Rothberg
    HEARTBREAK COUNTY Casey Ramsay Burgess/Payton Millet
      (staged reading)    
    IF SAND WERE STONE Tracy Carly Brooke Feinman/Cassie Willson
      (staged reading)    
    THREE SISTERS (devised) Irina Ilja Bocharnikovs
    LIFE OF GALILEO (devised) Ensemble Ianthe Demos/Nick Flint/
        Shira Milikowsky
         

    Film/New Media

    		    
    Q TRAIN (web series) Fern Dionne van den Berg/Samantha Tran
    SPILLED MILK (short film) Jane Ramsay Burgess/Ciara Hergott
    MANCHOL (short film) Satomi Yohei Okada

    Education

    The Juilliard School Drama Division
    Wesleyan University
    National Theater Institute, Moscow Art Theatre Semester – Moscow, Russia
    One Year Lease Theater Company Apprenticeship – Papingo, Greece

    Awards

    Rachel Henderson Theater Prize Recipient

    Skills

    Japanese (native speaker), Japanese Taiko Drumming, Nihon Buyō (basic), Droznin (Russian Partner Acrobatics), Stage Combat, Stilts, Ballet (basic), Singing (soprano), Knitting/Crochet, Ali Wong Impression