MIYO YAMAUCHI SETS TRUE “WORLD PREMIERE” WITH FIRST SOLO SHOW AT HOLLYWOOD FRINGE

Miyo Yamauchi is both Japanese and Angeleno, a seasoned storyteller and professional web developer. So it’s fitting that her first solo show How To Be Japanese: Your Normal is Not My Normal will premiere live in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Fringe Festival and subsequently livestreamed for online viewing everywhere else.

How To Be Japanese is directed by LA storytelling luminary Jane Morris and will be performed at the Asylum/Stephanie Feury Studio at 5636 Melrose Avenue on Saturday, June 4, 2022, at 7 pm. The performance will be reprised online with the National Storytelling Network on Saturday, June 18, 2022, @ 3 pm Pacific Time.
Tickets for both the live and online performances are $10.

Yamauchi was born and raised in Japan, but now resides in Southern California where she is a mainstay audience favorite at popular storytelling venues like the Fanatic Salon Theater, Strong Words, Story Salon, and the StoryMasters club.

“When you enter a new culture like I have, you’re the outsider. And that provides an excellent vantage point to question the status quo,” Yamauchi explains. “I want the audience to see their world from a different perspective through my odd world. When we understand the differences, we begin to recognize the similarities. And maybe when the audience is laughing at me and my crazy adventures, they might realize they’re also laughing at themselves a bit.”

Tickets for both performances can be purchased at https://miyo.net/solo22.
The livestream performance will also be available for viewing after June 18.