Makoto Hirano is a choreographer, director, performer, collaborator, writer, and aspiring carpenter. His performance ensemble OMNiBUS has been presented in numerous venues and festivals, including Yale University, The National Asian American Theater Festival, and Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. Performer/collaborator credits include:LOVE UNPUNISHED and PAY UP (Obie Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company); Still Unknown (Subcircle); The Happiness Lecture (Tony Award-winning Bill Irwin and Philadelphia Theatre Company); and most recently in Wandering Alice (Nichole Canuso Dance Company) and Car (Kate Watson-Wallace/anonymous bodies). In addition to performing, his writing has been commissioned for projects including: Tar (Charles Anderson/dance theatre X); Selective Sight and dance film Here (Subcircle). Makoto is a recipient of an Independence Foundation Fellowship and an APIA Residency at the Asian Arts Initiative. Makoto is a former-U.S. Marine, and studied dance at Columbia College Chicago before earning his BFA at Temple University. His favorite foods are pastries.