Yumei
Formed in 2015 as a collective which produces stage works, art works and video works. Taking as its starting point his own experiences and the voices of people around them who want to talk about themselves, Yumei vividly portrays environments and possibilities that change in a myriad of ways, and afterwards “presents” the ways reality has changed according to how it has been expressed artistically.
The collective’s aim is to find new perspectives and changes to reality by repeated resonance with/resistance against other people, generated by continuous expression and presentation.
Yumei gets its name from evening and morning, dark and light, this world and the next; the concept of human life moving from darkness into light, and the idea of what happens after death. From a name that often leads people to think the collective wants to be famous because the name Yumei is a homonym for “famous,” the group seeks to explore the concept of “things having other intentions,” like the origins of the group’s name.
Yumei does art production/direction/video production for NHK Educational TV, TOKYO MX etc. The collective also writes scrips for TV animations, and also engages in outside stage appearances, direction and art/design.

IKEDA Ryo
Playwright, director and visual artist. Born in 1982, Saitama Prefecture. Ikeda graduated from Tokyo University of Arts, Department of Sculpture of the Graduate School of Fine Arts. Ikeda is a founding member and representative of a creators’ collective “yumei” which produces and creates stage works, art works and video works. He belongs to PTA Inc. “Shape”, a stage work based on his real experience, was selected as the stage of the year 2019 by TV Bros journal and the best production of 2019 by Teatro, and it was restaged for the geigeki eyes series of Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre in 2021. In recent years, he has been writing numerous scripts for TV dramas or animations, music videos and other video works, as well as writing essays on web media.