Kei Tsuruharatani best know for: Jagged Little Pill, Broadway Revival Miss Saigon 2017, The King and I, Madama Butterfly and Damn Yankees

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Kei(they/them)have worked professionally for Shiki Theater Company in Japan. They also toured all over the world with different dance companies performing in Kennedy Center, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico, National Theater in Taiwan, and Esplanade in Singapore. In New York, they danced at the Metropolitan Opera for 6 seasons in more than 10 productions working with great directors and choreographers; Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Peter Seller, Mark Morris, Dough Varone, David McVicar.

In 2015 they made his Broadway debut with the King and I at the Lincoln Center, and continued working on Broadway for Miss Saigon Revival experiencing the TONY Awards performance.

Kei was born and raised in Osaka Japan. They started their interest in musical theater in their senior year in high school during the exchange program in US when they were 17. They learned dancing in Japan, LA, and New York intensely at reputable schools: the EDGE, Alvin Ailey School, Marymount Manhattan College.

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