Director Hiroshi Takahagi

　The Setagaya Public Theater opened in April 1997 inside the Setagaya Culture and Life Information Center inside the Carrot Tower in Sangenjaya.It is a creative art facility centered around the Setagaya Public Theater, which has approximately 4 seats with variable angle seats and a proscenium arch, and a black box theater tram with approximately 600 seats that can be freely changed.Contributing to culture, art, and international exchange while maintaining an organic relationship with each facility in the Setagaya Culture and Life Information Center, such as the workshop room, seminar room, and gallery of the Seikatsu Kobo, and the Setagaya International Exchange Center (Crossing Setagaya). I'm here.
　The new coronavirus infection will also change from type 5 to type 2 from May.Although we will continue to take measures against infectious diseases, we would like to pursue the various positive possibilities that theater and dance activities give to society as a public theater.
　We ask for your continued support and cooperation in the activities of the Setagaya Public Theater.
　
　Setagaya Public Theater (Setagaya Cultural Life Information Center) Director Takahagi Hiroshi

Director of Setagaya Public Theater (Setagaya Cultural Life Information Center)

Hiroshi Takahagi(Hiroshi Takahagi)

Born in Tokyo in 1953.He graduated from the Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo.
Dropped out of Columbia University Graduate School of Arts Administration.
A founding member of the theater company Yume no Yuminsha.
After leaving the company in 1989, he was involved in the management of the Japan Festival 1991 in the UK, the Tokyo Theater Fair, and the Tokyo International Arts Festival.
After working as manager of the Panasonic Globe Theatre, director of the Setagaya Public Theater production department, and deputy director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater in April 2008, he assumed the position of director of the Setagaya Public Theater.
From 2000 to 2002, he was a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Cultural Resources Studies, a part-time lecturer at Nihon University College of Art, Department of Drama from 2008, and a managing director of the Japan Association of Public Cultural Facilities from 2021.
"Boku to Engeki to Yume no Yuminsha" Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publisher 2009.
Co-authored "Theory and Practice of Corporate Mécénat," Suiyousha, 2010.Co-authored "Invitation to Theater Space" Kashima Publishing Co., Ltd. 2010.