Eiko Yamamoto

Eiko Yamamoto (she/they) hails from Tokyo, Seoul, Honolulu, and settled in the Bay Area after the Y2K. Eiko recently appeared as M’Lynn Eatenton in STEEL MAGNOLIAS at SierraRep. She returns to San Francisco Playhouse as Emily Whitman in Sondheim’s FOLLIES this summer/fall. In winter, she’ll debut at Panto in the Presidio in SLEEPING BEAUTY.

After an extensive career in corporate and arts management working at Universal Music Group, UCLA Center for Performing Arts, and Ernst & Young to name a few, she shifted focus to performing arts. Eiko trained at UCLA, East West Players, Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, and at American Conservatory Theater - Studio. She studied voice with Catherine Cook, Chair of Voice at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is well versed in various American Jazz dance forms (e.g. Lindy Hop, Charleston, Shag, Balboa). As a visual artist, she has shown her work in the Bay Area and abroad.

Eiko has a history of mentoring under-resourced youth. She designed a curriculum and worked with community leaders to provide mentorship at Oakland Asian Student Educational Services to develop leadership and college preparedness in her students.
She is honored to be a Japanese - Korean - American. A graduate of UCLA and the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, she is the first in her immigrant family to graduate college. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA and EMC of Actor’s Equity Association. She is based in the Bay Area, in the ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone people.