You-Ri Yamanaka

You-Ri is a Japanese actress, movement director, voiceover and acting teacher worldwide including the U.K., Europe, Japan and Egypt. She has been trained in Kabuki dance and Butoh in Japan, and also trained at LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art), Le Coq and Michael Chekhov in the U.K, Europe and US. She has been exploring the meeting points between the East and the West. Theatre includes: The Mistake (Jatinder Verma Productions), The Art of Gaman (Theatre 503),The Jungle Book (Watermill Theatre, Newbury), Underground (dreamthinkspeak / BITE Barbican International Theatre Events), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Southwark Playhouse), A Few Little Drops (Volcano Theatre/Clwyd Theatr Cymru), Island Chains (New Earth Theatre), Hell Screen by Mishima (Stonecrabs Theatre), The Princess And The Pea (Polka Theatre), Sea of Silence (Quicksilver Theatre/Leicester Haymarket), Blue Beards Castle (ICA), AJAX (Jermyn Street Theatre), Suppliants (Gilded Balloon Theatre, Edinburgh), The Monkey and The Crab (V&A Museum). Film and TV includes: The Wheel of Time (Amazon Prime), Silent Witness, Spirit Warriors, Reunited Panorama, Japanorama(BBC), The Last Enemy (BBC Films), YUKI (Northern Ireland Screen), Winterstoke House (Aviary Films), After the World Ended (Vertigoheights), Tokyo Jim (HLA, 2nd Winner at TCM Classic Shorts), You’re Welcome (1st Winner of International Short Film Festival in Greece), Theatre of Souls (Operating Productions). Movement Director/Coach/Choreographer work includes: Dido and Aeneas, Temple Middle Hall (Temple Festival), Magic Flute (New National Theatre Tokyo), Madam Butterfly (ENO) and Illyria (Theatre Royal Bath). 

You-Ri will be joining a new production from the Royal Shakespeare Company in this summer 2022.