Actor Shirota Yu received the rookie award for theatre from the “the 65th Agency for Cultural Affairs Arts Festival (Bunkacho Geijutsusai)”, and held a press conference on December 21st. The role that bequeathed the award was “Death (Der Tod)” from the musical “Elisabeth“, which was performed from August 9th~October 30th at the Imperial Garden Theater.

Shirota commented at the press conference, “I was just informed yesterday, so I’m very moved to receive this esteemed award, but at the same time, very surprised as I still can’t believe it!”

The annual “ACA Arts Festival” was first launched in 1948, and was organized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs (a special body of the Japanese Ministry of Education) to encourage artistic creativity and advancement of the arts.





source: tokyohive