Keisuke Mochizuki

I joined Theatre Workshop in April 2017, and am currently the manager of the company’s Theatre Technician Department. I provide guidance and advice for technical management at Yurihonjo City Cultural Center Kadare in Akita Prefecture, and also conduct lighting design for the venue’s in-house productions.
I find it highly rewarding when a job earns customer satisfaction and the project is repeated the following fiscal year as a result. I also enjoy the interaction that the job brings with members of the local community.

In the area of consulting, I provide theater equipment support for venues in a sort of “agony aunt” role. Though it is not the norm for a consultant to be heavily involved in theater operation once it is completed, I offer proposals spanning five, or even ten, years for improving user-friendliness on an ongoing basis, taking advantage of my long practical experience as a stage-lighting engineer.
Because the job requires attention to detail so that not a single cable or screw goes amiss, safely delivering a piece of equipment to a customer gives me a significant sense of accomplishment.

My previous employer was a public venue where I supervised a team of engineers as a facility maintenance section manager. Although my job did not involve constructing new venues from zero, I had the experience of working with Theatre Workshop on projects. Joining the company made me freshly aware of its excellent know-how and teamwork. Bringing my perspective as a theatre technician to the team, I am sharing with my colleagues the excitement, thrill, feeling of expectation and sense of responsibility that go with bringing a venue up to completion. Although I am nearly 60 years old, as a newcomer I am enjoying fresh challenges, among them being dispatched to India only a few months into my new job, which proved highly memorable.