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Occupation
  
playwright actor

Spouse
  
Sharon Omi

Nationality
  
American

Plays
  
No-No Boy

Name
  
Ken Narasaki

Siblings
  
Karen Narasaki

Role
  
Playwright


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Born
  
April 4, 1958 (age 65) Seattle, Washington, United States (
1958-04-04
)

Movies
  
Eat With Me, Only the Brave, Terminal USA, The Onion Movie, The Wash

Similar People
  
Sharon Omi, Lane Nishikawa, Karen Narasaki, David Au, Jon Moritsugu

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Ken Narasaki (born April 4, 1958 in Seattle, Washington) is a Yonsei (fourth-generation Japanese American) playwright and actor. He is the former Literary Manager at East West Players theatre company in Los Angeles. He is the twin brother of civil rights leader Karen Narasaki.

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Actor

Narasaki has appeared in a number of independent features including Jon Moritsugu's Terminal U.S.A. (1993), Chris Chan Lee's Yellow (1998) and Lane Nishikawa's Only the Brave (2006). Narasaki learned to speak German when he was cast in the German television series, Zwei Profis in 2002. He has appeared in over 65 plays in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.

Playwright

Narasaki's Ghosts and Baggage was produced at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in 1998. Innocent When You Dream was produced in 2007 at the Electric Lodge in Venice, California and was performed at the Smithsonian Institution in 2008, as part of the "Day of Remembrance" of Executive Order 9066. The Mikado Project, co-written with Doris Baizley, was produced by Lodestone Theatre Ensemble at the Grove Center Theatre in Burbank, California in 2007. No-No Boy, adapted from the novel "No-No Boy" by John Okada, received its world premiere at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica, California in 2010.

Plays

  • Ghosts and Baggage
  • The Mikado Project - (co-written with Doris Baizley)
  • Innocent When You Dream
  • No-No Boy
  • Awards

  • 2007 Kumu Kahua Theatre Pacific Rim Playwrights Award - Innocent When You Dream
  • 2008 Pacific Rim Playwriting Award - The Mikado Project
  • References

    Ken Narasaki Wikipedia