Kimi Maeda

Kimi Maeda is a Japanese-American theater artist living in Japan. Her ephemera trilogy, a collection of sand drawings and shadow performances that deal with memory, home and trans-cultural identity, was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in 2017. Maeda received a Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission in 2017. In 2016, she was selected by the Ford Foundation’s Just Films to participate in the Open Immersion Creative Virtual Reality Lab. She was the recipient of the 2015 Jasper Magazine Visual Artist of the Year Award and the 2005 Rose Brand Award in Scenic Design from USITT.