SANGO TAJIMA
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Representation:
Winterson's (London)
​JE Talent (San Francisco)​



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​HEIGHT: 5'0"
EYES: BROWN
​HAIR: BLACK


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Theatre

​Life of Pi *Asia Tour - Simon Friend Entertainment / Melting Pot - 2025
Director: Leigh Toney; Writer: Lolita Chakrabarti
Role: Lulu Chen / Biology Kumar
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Monument, or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play) *World Premiere  - Magic Theatre - 2022
Director: Giovanna Sardelli; Writer: Sam Chanse
Role: Mac / Julio


Water by the Spoonful - San Francisco Playhouse - 2022
Director: Denise Blasor; Writer: Quiara Alegria Hudes
Role: Orangutan
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Metamorphoses - ​Berkeley Rep & Guthrie Theater - 2019
Director & Writer: Mary Zimmerman
Role: Myrrah & Others


​House of Joy *World Premiere - California Shakespeare Theater - 2019
Director: Megan Sandberg-Zakian; Writer: Madhuri Shekar
Role: Roshni


Elevada - Shotgun Players - 2019
Director: Susannah Martin; Writer: Sheila Callaghan
Role: Ramona


Women Laughing Alone with Salad - Shotgun Players - 2018
Director: Susannah Martin; Writer: Sheila Callaghan
Role: Tori / Joe


In Braunau *World Premiere - San Francisco Playhouse - 2018
Director: Susannah Martin; Writer: Dipika Guha
Role: Sarah

The Wolves - Marin Theatre Company - 2018
Director: Morgan Green; Writer: Sarah Delappe
Role: #25

Shakespeare in Love - Marin Theatre Company - 2017
Director: Jasson Minadakis; Writer: Mark Norman, Tom Stoppard, & Lee Hall
Role: John Webster

The Mineola Twins - Cutting Ball Theater - 2017
Director: Ariel Craft; Writer: Paula Vogel
Role: Jim / Sarah

We Are Pussy Riot - Theatre Battery - 2017
Director: Logan Ellis; Writer: Barbara Hammond
Role: Katya

Crazy Girls Save the World (World Tour) - Miss Revolutionary Idol Berserker - 2017
Director: Toco Nikaido
Role: Miku

Stegosaurus (or) Three Cheers for Climate Change *World Premiere - FaultLine Theater - 2016
Director: Rem Myers; Writer: Andrew Saito
Role: Claudey

The Jungle Book - Marin Theatre Company - 2016
Director: Logan Ellis; Writer: Greg Banks
Role: Mowgli

Bad Kitty - Bay Area Children's Theater - 2016
Director: Ben Hanna; Writer: Min Kahng
Role: Bad Kitty

Clown Mama - Ragged Wing Ensemble - 2016
Director & Writer: Windy Wynazz
Role: Mom

Life is a Dream - Cutting Ball Theater - 2015
Director: Paige Rogers; Writer: Andrew Saito
Role: Rosaura
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Destination Home - Ragged Wing Ensemble - 2015
Director & Writer: Windy Wynazz
Role: Happy McClaine

Water by the Spoonful - Dirty Hands - 2015
Director: Logan Ellis; Writer: Quiara Alegria Hude
Role: Orangutan

Five Little Monkeys - Bay Area Children's Theater - 2014
Director: Karen Altree Piemme; Writer: Ernie Nolan
Role: Monkey

Year of the Rooster - Impact Theatre - 2014
Director: Logan Ellis; Writer: Olivia Dufault
Role: Philipa / Lucky Lady

Holy Crime - Campo Santo & American Conservatory Theater - 2013
Director: Sean San Jose; Writer: Sam Shepard
Role: Becky Lou

Film & Webseries

This Film is a Dildo - 2024
Director & Writer: Abrah Ophelia Katzman & Sango Tajima
Role: Spider

Blank Canvas - Goldsmiths, University of London - 2024
Director & Writer: Sango Tajima & Marc Arricale
Role: Tsuki

Burning - Goldsmiths, University of London - 2023
Director & Writer: OCU MFA Screen Acting Cohort
Role: Charlie

Where Are You From? - Oklahoma City University Short Film - 2023
Director & Writer: Sango Tajima
Role: Sango

Fern - Oklahoma City University Short Film - 2023
Director & Writer: Sean Smith & Abrah Ophelia Katzman
Role: Liz

15: Gin - Oklahoma City University Short Film - 2022
Director & Writer: Bob Shryock
Role: Gin

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Vanya Without Bullets - Actors' Reading Collective - 2022
Director & Adaptor: Robert Parsons
Role: Yelena

Lego Harry Potter and the Transgender Witch - Theatre Battery - 2021
Director: Logan Ellis; Writers: Malex Reed, Logan Ellis, Kait Mahoney, and Melina Cohen-Bramwell 
Role: Cho Chang & Others

I Broke The Looking Glass - Awesome Theater - 2020
Director: Phil Wong; Writer: Puja Tolton
Role: Spinel & Osmodea
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A Very Potter Musical Series - StarKid Productions - 2008-2012
Director & Writer: Matt & Nick Lang
Role: Lavender Brown

commercials

Cisco Systems, Inc. - First Person
Principal


Raley's - Division of Labor
Principal

CalPers Quick Tips - ​Take 1 Productions
Principal

​VSP SunSync - Un/Common
Principal

playwriting

Evolution - Ferocious Lotus - 2022
Writer: The Floater


umami - Ferocious Lotus - 2021
Writer & Performer


Rooted: Stories of Belonging Inspired by Asian Elders in the Bay Area - Ferocious Lotus - 2020
Writer: Art & Betty


Overnight - Ragged Wing Ensemble - 2017
Writer: Talk to Me


Through The Wall - Ragged Wing Ensemble - 2015
Co-Writer


Live City Revue (workshop) - Campo Santo & Felonious - 2014
Writer & Performer

The Rooted - Ragged Wing Ensemble - 2013
Writer & Performer

original / devised work

skinship - Shotgun Players Champagne Series - 2023
​Writer & Performer


PLACE to LAND (an Oakland love story) 
- The Bonfire Makers - 2016
​Collaborator & Performer


We Go Boom - The Bonfire Makers - 2015
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Collaborator & Performer

String Up The Moon​ - Fratellanza - 2013
​Collaborator & Performer

readings & workshops

Let Me Explain
Writer: Daniel Handler
Role: Fiona

Best Available - Actors' Reading Collective
Writer: Jonathan Spector
Role: Ariana

Supposed Home - Playwrights Foundation
Director: May Liang; Writer: Sam Hamashima
Role: Young Shiyoko

Vampires in the Lemon Grove - Word for Word & Z Space
Director: Amy Kossow and Vaness Flores; Writer: Karen Russell
Role: Fila & Others

Hawwa - Oakland Theater Project
Writer: Mohammad Shehata
Role: Angel

Meth - 3Girls Theatre
Director: Zach Kopciak; Writer: Elizabeth Flanagan
Role: Lou

The Pennsylvanian - 3Girls Theatre
Director: Zach Kopciak; Writer: Jennifer Lynne Robert
Role: Pixie

The Great Khan
Director & Writer: Michael Gene Sullivan
Role: Gao-Ming

Final Contact - Magic Theatre
Director: Liana Irvine; Writer: Alex Lin
Role: Leung

The Late Wedding - Shotgun Players
Director: Patrick Dooley; Writer: Christopher Chen
Role: Narrator & Others

Do You Feel Anger? - Shotgun Players
Director: Susannah Martin; Writer: Mara Nelson-Greenberg
Role: Sofia

The Art of Gaman - Berkeley Rep Ground Floor
Director: Lauren Keating; Writer: Diphika Guha
Role: HS Girl / Cousin
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Fidelis - Playwrights Foundation
Director: M. Graham Smith; Writer: Christina Gorman
Role: Jeanie / Raylan

Good, Better, Best, Bested - Playwrights Foundation
Director: Tracy Ward; Writer: Jonathan Spector
Role: Su-Jin

The Sensuality Party - Magic Theatre
Director: Amy Marie Haven; Writer: Justin Kuritzkes
Role: Allison

who shot miguelito? - Campo Santo & Z Space
Director & Writer: Sean San Jose
Role: Eklektik
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The Heresy of Love - Royal Shakespeare Company
Director & Writer: Helen Edmundson
Role: Angelica

Boris Godunov - Royal Shakespeare Company
Director: Michael Boyd; Writer: Adrian Mitchell
Role: Ensemble

directing

whisper fish (staged reading) - ​​Bay Area Playwrights Festival
​​Writer: Andrew Saito
Director


One Minute Play Festival - Playwrights Foundation
Director


John - American Conservatory Theater
​Director: Ken R. Schmoll; Writer: Annie Baker
Assistant Director

Terminus - Magic Theatre
​Director: Jon Tracy; Writer: Mark O'Rowe
Assistant Director

​Se Llama Cristina - Magic Theatre
​Director: Loretta Greco; Writer: Octavio Solis
Assistant Director

Another Way Home - Magic Theatre
​Director: Meredith McDonough; Writer: Anna Ziegler
Assistant Director

never fall so heavily again - BrickABrack
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Director & Writer: Gabriel Grilli
Assistant Director

training & experience

MA Screen Acting: Goldsmiths, University of London
  • Acting: Cass Fleming
  • Movement: Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
  • Voice: Deborah Garvey
  • Production: Murray Woodfield, Marcos Mereles, Francesca Castelbuono
MFA Screen Acting: Oklahoma City University
  • Acting for the Camera: Tim Davis-Reed​
  • Acting for Commercials: Melissa O’Neil (Mel & Liz Casting)
  • Producing: Jesse Murphy (Wonderland Sound & Vision)
  • Improv & Sketch Comedy: Bruce Wexler
  • Voiceover: Rick Wasserman
​BFA Acting: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Soho Theatre Drag & Cabaret Lab (2024) 
Ferocious Lotus Company Member
Ragged Wing Ensemble Artistic Co-leader, Associate Artist, Staff
The Bonfire Makers Ensemble Member
Magic Theatre Artistic Direction Apprentice (2012-2013)
New Conservatory Theatre Center YouthAware Actor (2014-2015)​


special skills

​​Violin, Fluent in Japanese, Dance, IPA and Dialect Proficient, Stage Combat: SAFD Certified Actor-Combatant (hand-to-hand, quarterstaff, rapier/ dagger), Clown
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