YUKATA COWBOY - SHOW INFO

"YUKATA COWBOY - Stranger in Strangeland" SHOW INFO for Fringe by Atsushi Ogata

SHOW DESCRIPTION

Come laugh with Atsushi Ogata’s semi-autobiographical comedy of growing up with wild imaginations and living around the world as a perpetual “stranger in strangeland.”

What happens if you’re born a “class clown” in Japan, grow up in the US and live around Europe as a low-budget, globetrotting filmmaker/actor/artist? At times, you become a Zelig-like “chameleon” character, morphing into a local, getting mistaken for restaurant staff. Other times, you become an instant-celebrity for looking so “different”, getting credit for work you never did and end up on a weekly show on national TV. What’s the take-away? Unique observations about life and customs in various countries? Or maybe you just transform into a cross-cultural super-hero - half-Samurai, half-cowboy, totally nuts - like “Yukata Cowboy”…!? Come find out!

Through my semi-autobiographical standup comedy, I want to explore and share insights from my personal journey, making them accessible and inspiring to the wider public today. My hope is to have some impact in countering the current world trend, where borders and mindsets are getting more closed.

BIO - ATSUSHI OGATA

Born in Japan and raised partly in the U.S., Atsushi has worked in the U.S., Europe and Japan, as a film director, screenwriter, artist, actor and comedian. Graduate of Harvard and MIT, Atsushi’s art videos have screened world-wide. His screenplays received funding in Germany and the Netherlands, and he appeared weekly as a comedian on Dutch TV. His earlier film “Eternally Yours” was selected for the New Directors/New Films at the MoMA and Lincoln Center, New York, and his theatrical feature “Cast Me If You Can” was screened on airlines, TV and streamed digitally on iTunes in North America. Atsushi has then expanded into web series with his one-man comedy video series “Yukata Cowboy” ® and its spin-offs, winning awards world-wide.

Atsushi performs stand up at the Broadway Comedy Club in NY, Comedy Chateau LA (“Best of Fest”), Burbank Comedy Fest and Tokyo Comedy Bar and produces, hosts and performs in “World Comedy In NYC” shows at Broadway.

Atsushi’s comedy tends to be semi-autobiographical stories and observations inspired from his life of living around the world as a perpetual “outsider.”

IMDB Link: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1788969/