REPRESENTING THE ACTOR’S ACTOR -OBIE SHO
Almost every actor you talk to remembers when he or
she decided that acting was going to be their life. Obie Sho, the popular
Japanese actor, told us that for him that moment occurred when he was
presenting his award-winning speech at the All-japan English Speech Contest.
Before his final presentation he watched the audience as they listened to other
high school speech competitors and saw two of them doze off as the speaker
rambled on. That was one of the triggers, as he calls it, that helped him ramp
up his performance on stage in front of a very large audience. He couldn’t
remember how his performance went but before the applause began he did notice
that the two sleepers in the audience were definitely not dozing off during his
speech. That was when he knew that the performing arts, especially acting would
be his life’s work.
Since then he has immersed himself fully into several
years of exhaustive acting classes and workshops and when he was living and
working in Las Vegas, he studied film acting under the well-known acting
teacher Ryan R. Williams. Besides working on numerous TV shows, commercials and
films, Obie has also been part of Team Hara in Las Vegas and other venues. Team
Hara was one of the most remembered of all magic/illusion shows on America’s
Got Talent. Obie can be seen assisting Hara the Illusionist on stage when he
performed in front of millions of Americans on that great TV show.
Obie is developing his singing and dancing skills in
Los Angeles and Las Vegas and is working quite a bit on films and commercials.
He is also working on a One Man Theater Project, in which he will star. It is
about the beautiful Japanese island that he is from, which is named Yakushima. That
island, by the way, is the first place in Japan to be named a World Heritage
Site by the United Nations. His one-man show will be about Yakushima itself and
will express through fantasy story-telling the respect and humility mankind
should be showing to nature. He is re-writing the show’s script and will use
either anime or projection mapping to help tell the story. Obie looks forward
to premiering the show in the next year or two.
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