Akiko Iwase

Akiko Iwase was born and raised in Tochigi, Japan. After high school, she moved to the U.S. and graduated from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. After graduating from college, Akiko returned to Japan and started her acting career in Tokyo. She has been acting both on stage and on film ever since. In 2008, she started her own theater company called "Bion" in which she plays a role of an actor, a script writer, and a producer. In 2017, she was awarded as the Best Actor and the Best Script Writer for Kamome Short Play Festival which is a national competition for short plays in Japan. Her first appearance in an international film was "The Forest" (2016) directed by Jason Zada followed by a Netflix movie "Earthquake Bird" (2019) directed by Wash Westmoreland.