Mai Ishikawa
ITI offsite Resident 2025
Residency Dates: 25 – 29 August 2025
Japanese theatre-maker and poet Mai Ishikawa is based in Dublin. She has translated several plays for full productions and is an accomplished tap dancer and performer with credits including Festival d’Avignon, KYOTO EXPERIMENT, and World Puppet Theatre Festival Bangkok. Mai won the Unohana Prize in the 8th Kyoto Writing Competition and was shortlisted in the Westival International Poetry Competition 2024. Her poetry appears in The Stony Thursday Book, Banshee, and others. Her theatre work fuses poetic dialogue with physical movement, creating moments that suspend time and reveal the extraordinary in everyday life.