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Whole Hog Theatre in association with Park Theatre present the World Premiere of

The Garden of Words

TAKAO AKIZUKI I HIROKI BERRECLOTH
SHOTA AKIZUKI I JAMES BRADWELL
REIMI AKIZUKI I KAT CLEAVE / SUSAN MOMOKO HINGLEY
SHOKO AIZAWA I SHOKO ITO
RIKA TERAMOTO I INIKI MARIANO
YUKARI YUKINO I AKI NAKAGAWA
SOICHIRO ITO I MARK TAKESHI OTA
UNDERSTUDY REIMI AKIZUKI I KAT CLEAVE

Hiroki Berrecloth

Training: National Youth Theatre.

Recent screen credits include Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Lionsgate) & Red Rose (BBC).

As a Japanese-British actor-writer he is particularly passionate about the representation of South East Asians and their stories in media and film.

James Bradwell

Training: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre: includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stafford Gatehouse); Not Yet Midnight (Royal Court); Corrina, Corrina (Headlong, Liverpool Everyman); My Night with Reg (Turbine); Romeo & Juliet, Richard III (Shakespeare’s Rose) and Read Not Dead (Shakespeare's Globe). 

Television: includes I Hate You (Channel 4); The Split (BBC); Bridgerton, Back to Life (Netflix). 

Videogame: includes Live a Live (Nintendo), Horizon: Forbidden West, Baldur’s Gate III. 

Susan Momoko Hingley

Training: East 15 Acting School and Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris.

Theatre: includes My Neighbour Totoro (Royal Shakespeare Company); Missing People (Leeds Playhouse, Japan Tour); Wendy and Peter Pan, Orphan of Zhao, Boris Godunov & A Life of Galileo (all Royal Shakespeare Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe, International Tour); Dorian Gray (New National Theatre Japan); Tamburlaine (Arcola); Around the World in 80 Days (New Vic/Royal Exchange), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet (both Honey Tongued, Croatia); One Million, Home (Tangled Feet) and The Snow Queen (Lawrence Batley Theatre).

Television: includes Years and Years (BBC/HBO) and Doctors (BBC).

Film: Shino’s Show, The Gloaming and Household Gods.

Audio: Doctor Who (Big Finish); Space 1999  (Big Finish); Hitman (IO Interactive); Need for Speed (EA) and various audiobooks.

Shoko Ito

Training: Tring Park School for the Performing Arts

Theatre: Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures - Sleeping Beauty (UK & International Tour); The Car Man (The Royal Albert Hall); Nutcracker! (UK Tour); Swan Lake (UK & International Tour).

Film: Sleeping Beauty (2023); Nutcracker! (2022); Swan Lake (2019).

Other: Tannery Series 002 campaign for Ecco Japan (2022). Short dance film Resilience for Tracing Movement directed and choreographed by Stuart Winter (2021).

Iniki Mariano

Iniki was born and raised in Singapore where she made her Stage and Screen debuts, before training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Theatre: includes The Lodger (Coronet Theatre); Peter Pan (National Theatre/BOV); The Jungle Book (Derby Theatre); Can’t Wait for Christmas! (Orange Tree Theatre).

Television and Film: includes Space Plug (Disney); The Retreat (ALTER/Mubi); Jam (Mubi) and The Seekers (OKTO).

Aki Nakagawa

Training: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (CDT BA Acting).

Theatre: includes My Neighbour Totoro (Royal Shakespeare Company); Lord of the Flies (Leeds Playhouse).

Mark Takeshi Ota

Theatre: includes My Neighbour Totoro (RSC); How to Hold Your Breath (Royal Court); Amaterasu - Out of the Cave (Arcola); The Art of Gaman (Theatre 503); Into the Numbers (Finborough Theatre).

Film includes: Little English.

Video Games: includes The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, Dead Island 2, Live a Live, Company of Heroes 3.

Kat Cleave

Training: Bristol Old Vic Theatre School & University of California Santa Barbara.

Theatre Credits: Troilus and Cressida (Redgrave Theatre), Peerless (Severson Theatre), The Winter’s Tale, Into The Beautiful North (Hatlen Theater), Hookman, What Martha Did, The World of Extreme Happiness (Performing Arts Theater UCSB), Hamlet, (The Studio Theater), & The Odyssey Project (The Center Stage).

Television Credits: FBI: International (CBS).

Selected Audio: Paradise (Darkfield Radio), The Power (Amazon Studios), Look Both Ways (Netflix), Avenue 5 (HBO), Sex Education (Netflix) & Tickets to Paradise (Universal Pictures).

Directing Credits: It’s All Bananas (Creator and Director), Crushed, & Ten Ways to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse (CUHS Drama).