About

Tomoka Takahashi is a Japanese-Korean actor, creator, and artist based in New York, born and raised in Yokohama, Japan. She is a multi-hyphenate creator that strives to tell story in many different mediums. She believes that ANYTHING can be theater and dives into not only classical acting, but movement, music, programming, opera, games, interactive art installations, amusement parks, costumes, and site-specific performances.

As an actor, Tomoka has performed across different genres since the age of six, including films, music videos, voice acting, VR games, classical theatre, and experimental theatre.

As a director, she has assisted directed Don Giovanni at Mannes School of Music (Opera), the premiere of Looking Glass at Experimental Theatre Wing (NYU), and is currently adapting The Love Suicides at Amijima by Chikamatsu Monzaemon at The New School’s APEX Festival 2026.

As a musician, she plays piano (20 years), the traditional Japanese string instrument Koto (17 years), clarinet (3 years), accordion piano (1 year), and harmonica (1 year).

She is founding member of Company Della Luna.

Having produced work in Japan, New York, Italy, Korea, Edinburgh, and London, Tomoka endeavours to keep sharing stories from different communities without the boundaries and limitations of language and culture. She hopes to carry the techniques of storytelling to the next generation.