Ueda Keiko
Picture Credit: Zaraphena / Poem of Love and Revolution Program
Name: Ueda Keiko
Kanji: 植田景子
Position: Director / Playwright
Former Takarasienne: No
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Birthday: February 24, 1966
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Hometown: Yamatokoriyama town, Nara District
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First Takarazuka Work: 1998 Icarus
Projects by director Ueda Keiko
- No relation to Ueda Shinji, though she is his huge fan
- She became a Takarazuka fan when she was 10, after she saw the 'Rose of Versailles: Fersen and Marie-Antoinette'
- She graduated from university in 1994, and on her fifth try passed the exam to become Takarazuka Revue's first female director's assistant. (Misato Kei did assistant director work in the 80s, but she was not hired from externally.)
- In 2010 she wrote a book 'Can you dream?' about her way to becoming Takarazuka director and her way as Takarazuka director