Hideki Noda (playwright)

Noda Hideki (野田秀樹 ; born 1955 in Nagasaki, Japan) is a Japanese playwright, theatre director and actor.

He formed Yume no Yumin Sha(夢の遊眠社) when he was studying at Tokyo University. After the Yume no Yumin Sha broke up in 1992, he went to London to study theatres. Back to Japan, he formed a new unit, NODA MAP.

During 1980s, he is seen as one of the prominent figure in Japanese Sho-Gekijo movement. His plays contains a lot of word game and sometimes he remakes classics from Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung to traditional Kabuki plays.

His newest work is The Diver, a collaboration with Colin Teevan, which is currently showing in Tokyo, Japan.