Yuta Hagiwara, born in Tokyo, is a director and playwright. He studied theatre history at Waseda University until 2006, then from 2007 he studied under the mime dancer Hironobu Oikawa, who collaborated with Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. After graduating, Yuta Hagiwara founded his own theatre company “Kamome Machine”. His artistic perspective focuses on the relation between society and individual body.