Jack Straw teaching artist Mimi Katano (she/her) is a bilingual, bicultural theatre artist in Seattle. Her directing credits include Seattle Opera (School Tour), Seattle Shakespeare Company, 5th Avenue Theatre (ETC Tour), Seattle Public Theatre, Centerstage Theatre, Live Girls! Theatre, 14/48 Projects, Boston’s Wheelock Family Theatre, and Youth Theatre Northwest, where she served as the Executive Artistic Director for over two decades. Mimi is a two-time Gregory Awards nominee for Outstanding Direction, and the production of Vietgone, which she directed in 2024, received Outstanding Production of the Year. Mimi is the Founding Artistic Director of Za Trans-Pacific Productions (ztpproductions.com), which connects her native country of Japan and the US through theatre.

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