Eiko Yamamoto

Eiko Yamamoto, a multi-hyphenate, Japanese - Korean American artist, hails from Tokyo, Seoul, and Honolulu.

After an extensive career in corporate and arts management working at Universal Music Group, Center for Art of Performance UCLA, and Ernst & Young to name a few, she shifted professional focus to performing arts. Be it Shakespeare, Sondheim, Stoppard, or new works, they're passionate about empowering positive change one story at a time.

Eiko is committed to championing historically excluded voices in the American theatre canon and have developed new works with Playwrights Foundation/ Crowded Fire, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, PlayOn Shakespeare/ Magic Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, Z Space, AlterLab and Company One (Boston). Other selected credits include work with TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, African-American Shakespeare, Marin Shakespeare Company, Z Space, Presidio Theatre, Hillbarn Theatre, Theatre of Yugen, Kunoichi Productions, Sierra Rep, San Jose Playhouse and Company One.

Eiko is a member of PlayGround SF, an Artistic Associate of Rainbow Zebra Productions and SAG-AFTRA. She is an alum of University of California Los Angeles and California College of Arts, San Francisco.