The Bacchae
McGuire Proscenium
Akiko Aizawa
Akiko Aizawa joined SITI Company in 1997 and has appeared in 25 shows, including FALLING & LOVING (with STREB Extreme Action), The Bacchae (BAM), Steel Hammer (music by Julia Wolfe), A Rite (with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company), American Document (with Martha Graham Dance Company), the theater is a blank page (with Ann Hamilton), Trojan Women (Getty Villa), bobrauschenbergamerica (American Repertory Theater), Radio Macbeth (The Public Theater) and Culture of Desire (New York Theatre Workshop), all directed by Anne Bogart, and Hanjo (Japan Society), directed by Leon Ingulsrud. Other credits include Suicide Forest (directed by Aya Ogawa) and Sleep (directed by Rachel Dickstein). As a member of the Suzuki Company of Toga from 1987 to 1993, she performed in Trojan Women, Three Sisters, Dionysus, The Bacchae, The Chronicle of Macbeth, Ivanov, Waiting for Romeo and Greetings From the Edge of the Earth, all directed by Tadashi Suzuki. Aizawa is originally from Akita, Japan.