Aya Ogawa is a playwright, director, performer and Japanese-to-English translator for theater. The plays she created and directed include The Nosebleed (Incoming! Under the Radar), Ludic Proxy (The Play Company), Journey to the Ocean (Foundry Theatre), and oph3lia (HERE). Most recently she directed Kristine Haruna Lee’s Suicide Forest at The Bushwick Starr. She has translated numerous Japanese plays into English that have been published by Samuel French among others, and produced in the U.S. and U.K. She is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, a Usual Suspect at NYTW, an Artist-in-Residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange and recipient of the President’s Award in Performing Arts, LMCC.