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Sasha Waltz

IATL Inaugural Fellow 2022
Choreographer, Leader of Sasha Waltz & Guests Company

Sasha Waltz is a German choreographer, dancer, leader of the dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests, and artistic director designate of the Berlin State Ballet, alongside Johannes Ohman, effective 2019. She is a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts and inventor of the choreographic opera genre. Sasha Waltz has an exceptional career as a creative artist in performance institutions and as a unique voice of art in the contemporary space. She is globally recongised as one of the most significant, impactful, and influential creators in the field of performing arts. In 2023, her company celebrates 30 years of excellence on world's stage. The inaugural Fellowship of IATL was awarded in recognition of her exceptional career as a true, genuine leader of contemporary dance and dance-theatre in Germany and beyond.

Hideki Noda

IATL Fellow 2022
Artistic Director of Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre

Hideki Noda is widely regarded as one of Asia's most original theatre artists. Since 2009, he has been the Artistic Director of Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre. He is a highly accomplished playwright, director, and actor. He is the author of a few of the most imaginative adaptations in contemporary Japanese theatre, some of them based on traditional Kabuki scripts. Noda is also actively involved in important international productions, recurrently working with British actors such as Kathryn Hunter. He has won the major drama awards in Japan, and was awarded the 2009 Asahi Prize. He was appointed an Honorary Officer of the British Empire (OBE) in October 2009 and he received the Medal with Purple Ribbon for his contributions to education and culture in 2011. Often referred to as “Japan’s iconic avant-garde stage hero”, Noda is a true leader of experimental performance in Asia and beyond. The IATL Fellowship was awarded in recognition of his impressive career as one of the world’s most significant theatre innovators.

Neil LaBute

IATL Fellow 2023
Playwright, Screenwriter and Film Director

Neil LaBute is one of the most acclaimed and innovative contemporary American playwrights. He is a complex writer and a fine observer of human nature, which he uses as inspiration to create original characters, revealing his consistent questioning of the established beliefs of our times. His texts have been staged all over the world. He is best known for the play that he wrote in 1997 and later adapted for film, ”In the Company of Men”, which won awards at the Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards and the New York Film Critics Circle. He received the Literature Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2013. His other plays, such as ”Bash” or ”The Shape of Things”, have been translated into multiple different languages and performed all around the globe. The IATL Fellowship was awarded in recognition of his impressive achievements as a genuine trailblazer of modern-day American theatre, and for relentlessly inspiring new generations of playwrights and screenwriters.