Eiko Yamamoto
Birth Place: Tokyo, Japan
Latest News on Eiko Yamamoto:
The Mountain Play Presents INTO THE WOODS For Their 110th Season, May 21- June 18 (Mar 16, 2023)
CLUE to be Presented at San Francisco Playhouse in March (Feb 6, 2023)
VIDEO: First Look at the Trailer for FOLLIES at San Francisco Playhouse (Jul 26, 2022)
The Mountain Play Presents INTO THE WOODS For Their 110th Season, May 21- June 18 (Mar 16, 2023)
CLUE to be Presented at San Francisco Playhouse in March (Feb 6, 2023)
VIDEO: First Look at the Trailer for FOLLIES at San Francisco Playhouse (Jul 26, 2022)
Eiko Yamamoto BIO
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.
Eiko Yamamoto Photos
Emily (Eiko Yamamoto, center left) and Theodore Whitman’s (Rene Collins, center righ) Rain on the Roof catches the attention of guests Carlotta Campion (Cindy Goldfield*, background left) and Phyllis Rogers Stone (Maureen McVerry*, partially visible).
Date:
07/20/2022
From: Photos: First Look at Natascia Diaz & More in FOLLIES at San Francisco Playhouse
Singing Beautiful Girls from the balcony, Roscoe (understudy Timothy Lynch) is accompanied by (front row, L-R) Hattie Walker (Lucinda Hitchcock Cone*), Phyllis Rogers Stone (Maureen McVerry*), Solange LaFitte (Jill Slyter), Stella Deems (Caroline Louise Altman*), Sally Durant Plummer (Natascia Diaz*), Carlotta Campion (Cindy Goldfield*), and Emily Whitman (Eiko Yamamoto) as they re-live their past as Follies performers and are joined by (back row, L-R) Dimitri Weismann (Louis Parnell), Benjamin Stone (Chris Vettel*), and the ghosts of Follies past (Emily Corbo, Ann Warque, and Catrina Manahan).
Date:
07/20/2022
From: Photos: First Look at Natascia Diaz & More in FOLLIES at San Francisco Playhouse
Dimitri Weissman (Louis Parnell*, center) welcomes his guests (L-R) Carlotta Campion (Cindy Goldfield*), Solange LaFitte (Jill Slyter), Theodore Whitman (Rene Collins), and Emily Whitman (Eiko Yamamoto).
Date:
07/20/2022
From: Photos: First Look at Natascia Diaz & More in FOLLIES at San Francisco Playhouse
Former Follies performers (L-R) Hattie Walker (Lucinda Hitchcock Cone*), Phyllis Rogers Stone (Maureen McVerry*), Emily Whitman (Eiko Yamamoto), and Solange LaFitte (Jill Slyter) reminisce during Beautiful Girls, accompanied by ghosts of Follies past (back row, L-R: Catrina Manahan, Ann Warque, and Emily Corbo). Theodore Whitman (Rene Collins) makes his way up the stairs.
Date:
07/20/2022
From: Photos: First Look at Natascia Diaz & More in FOLLIES at San Francisco Playhouse
Eiko Yamamoto Videos
VIDEO: First Look at Natascia Diaz & More in FOLLIES at San Francisco Playhouse
by Stephi Wild - Jul 21, 2022
Eiko Yamamoto News
The Mountain Play Presents INTO THE WOODS For Their 110th Season, May 21- June 18
The Mountain Play, the San Francisco Bay Area's most magical outdoor theater experience, will present INTO THE WOODS for its 110th Season, May 21 through June 18.
CLUE to be Presented at San Francisco Playhouse in March
Directed by San Francisco Playhouse Co-Founder and Producing Director Susi Damilano, Clue will perform March 9 – April 22, 2023 at San Francisco Playhouse.
VIDEO: First Look at the Trailer for FOLLIES at San Francisco Playhouse
San Francisco Playhouse is now presenting Follies, through September 10. Follies features a book by James Goldman, with Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Get a first look at the trailer here!
Review: FOLLIES at SF Playhouse
What did our critic think of FOLLIES at SF Playhouse? Director Bill English and his troupe of collaborators have waited three long years to present San Francisco's first fully staged, professional production of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's seven-time Tony Award winning musical.
VIDEO: First Look at Natascia Diaz & More in FOLLIES at San Francisco Playhouse
San Francisco Playhouse is now presenting Follies, starring Natascia Diaz, through September 10. Get a first look at all new video footage from the production here!
Photos: First Look at Natascia Diaz & More in FOLLIES at San Francisco Playhouse
San Francisco Playhouse is presenting Follies, Book by James Goldman, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, through September 10. The cast features Natascia Diaz as Sally Durant Plummer; Samantha Rose Cárdenas as Young Sally and Ensemble; Maureen McVerry as of Phyllis Rogers Stone and more. Get a first look at photos here!
San Francisco Playhouse Announces Cast For FOLLIES Opening June 30
San Francisco Playhouse announced casting for Follies by James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim. The musical will run on the San Francisco Playhouse Mainstage from June 30 through September 10, 2022. Bill English will direct, with music direction by Dave Dobrusky and choreography by Nicole Helfer. This marks the first fully staged professional production of Follies in San Francisco.
Natascia Diaz, Ryan Drummond & More to Star in FOLLIES at San Francisco Playhouse
San Francisco Playhouse announced casting for Follies by James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim. The musical will run on the San Francisco Playhouse Mainstage from June 30 through September 10, 2022.
Last Chance To Vote For The BroadwayWorld San Francisco Awards; FOR THE RECORD: BRATPACK Leads Best Musical!
This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld San Francisco Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.
Final Weeks To Vote For The BroadwayWorld San Francisco Awards; FOR THE RECORD: BRATPACK Leads Best Musical!
Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld San Francisco Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.
Vote For The 2021 BroadwayWorld San Francisco Awards; FOR THE RECORD: BRATPACK's Leads Best Musical!
Our readers set the nominees, and now voting is open for the 2021 BroadwayWorld San Francisco Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.
Vote For The 2021 BroadwayWorld San Francisco Awards; First Stats Announced!
Our readers set the nominees, and now voting is open for the 2021 BroadwayWorld San Francisco Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.
Foothill Theatre Arts Presents Love Letter To The Theatre THE BOOK OF WILL
Multi award-winning Foothill Theatre Arts presents Lauren Gunderson's joyous celebration of theatre, The Book of Will, performing live on stage three weeks only, November 5 – 21, 2021 at the Lohman Theatre, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills.
Palo Alto Players Presents WORKING - A MUSICAL Next Month
Palo Alto Players opens its 91 season with WORKING - the groundbreaking, musical exploration of the American worker from all walks of life with songs by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton), as well as favorites by Craig Carnelia, James Taylor, Micki Grant, and more.
The African-American Shakespeare Company Reschedules Streaming Of TWELFTH NIGHT; New Dates TBA
The African-American Shakespeare Company was to begin streaming its colorful new production of Twelfth Night on May 17, but due to technical/production delays will be rescheduled; new dates TBA.
SBMT Presents Rodgers And Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC
South Bay Musical Theatre (SBMT) has announced the full cast and creative team for the final production of the Company's 2019-2020 season, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony Award® and Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece SOUTH PACIFIC.
SOUTH PACIFIC Cast And Creative Team Announced at South Bay Musical Theatre
South Bay Musical Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for the final production of the Company's 2019-2020 season, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece SOUTH PACIFIC.
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