Junshin Soga is an actor, director, and playwright based in New York. He writes about gay Asian experiences, family and relationships, confronting racism, and creates stories about sex, aging, life and death.
His play, One Fine Day, was nominated for the 2017 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Best Original Script, and In Dreams premiered and participated in the 2017 NY Summerfest Theater Festival.
Junshin was raised in Hiroshima and works on projects collecting and telling the stories of atomic bomb survivors. He has also been touring cities between Japan and the U.S. reading Hoshiwa Miteiru, a memoir by Toshie Fujino, whose son was killed in the bombings.
He recently starred in a short film, The Chicken, which premiered at the 73rd Locarno Film Festival and is being screened in many film festivals around the world.
