"Forgiveness" Playwright: Hiro Kanagawa Director: Stafford Arima Set & Costumes: Lorenzo Savoini Lighting: Kaileigh Krysztofiak Music: Allison Lynch Projection Design: Sammy Chien (Chimerik 似不像) Sound: Olivia Wheeler Choreography: Stephanie Graham Original Illustrations & Animations: Cindy Mochizuki

Father - daughter beach day. Ipperwash Beach, ON.

These jumbo eggs from the Stratford Farmer's Market are so pretty.

If you don't like fruit salad we can't be friends.

Mood.

Early bird. #zen

Thank you to the first audience this afternoon who came to the invited dress of "Forgiveness." So excited to welcome audiences to see the fruits of our labour. Here's a peek at 3 of the over 200 costume changes in the show. Runs May 23 - Sept. 27 at the Stratford Festival, Tom Patterson Theatre.

Forgiveness Dress Rehearsal #1. First look at Commandant Kato. #stratfordfestival

Rockin' the show merch. 1st preview Fri. May 23. Tickets: www.stratfordfestival.ca/WhatsOn/Play...

Checking my rehearsal schedule for tomorrow, I swear!

Light-hearted moments from "Forgiveness" rehearsals on the Tom Patterson Stage and the rehearsal hall. Cannot wait to share this show with the world! www.stratfordfestival.ca/WhatsOn/Play...

A small pleasure with a big impact. It fills me with joy each morning to see a dozen sharp pencils on every table in the rehearsal hall. In what other line of work besides theatre are you gonna get these beautiful sharp pencils every day? Thank you Stage Management! 🥰

End of a looong week. And it's only Tuesday!

Happy World Theatre Day! From a place that lives and breathes it!

Thrilled that an episode of Family Law I shot a couple of years ago w dear friend Jillian Fargey and directed by the incomparable @agamdarshi is airing tonight at 8pm EST on Global. A beautiful episode of a beautiful homegrown Canadian series!

Super proud of my work as Oda Nobunaga in Assassin's Creed: Shadows! This was my 1st major mo-cap role & it was a trip to see how far the tech has come. Having said that, it's good to know they still need flesh-&-blood actors to give voice & life to the CGI. May it always be so!

Forgiveness Day 1 at Stratford's magnificent Tom Patterson Theatre. Even having dreamt of something like this, I'm still overwhelmed by the enormity of the moment.

Shoulda opened from the other end.

I'm driving this 19-hr, 1900km stretch from Winnipeg to Stratford next Wed thru Fri and it's giving me the willies. Should I the Interstate route via Minneapolis and Chicago instead? Please weigh in if you know the area!

Winter morning, Noons Creek, Port Moody, BC

Great write up about the show "Sex, Drugs and Criminality" that I'm participating in tonight at the Russian Hall in Strathcona. I'd invite you but it's sold out. Sex sells!

First look my Yakuza boss Kenta Nakano from "The Recruit" Season II. Starring Noah Centineo and Teo Yoo. Premiering today on Netflix!

A group of teens asks three adult artists whatever they want about sex, drugs and criminality. I'm both thrilled and terrified to be a part of this! I'll probably wind up revealing things I'll never reveal again. One night only, Fri. Feb. 7 Get your tix: holdonletgo.ca/performance/...

Happy New Year from snowy Sapporo! Braved the crowds at Hokkaido Jingu, had a delicious grilled squid, found a little shrine off to the side that spoke to the quiet in my soul more than the big one with the crowds. Wishing you all health, happiness & prosperity in 2025!

I've flown in & out of Narita for years & never explored the area. Glad I did this trip w my daughter. 20 min from Terminal 1 is the 1000 yr old Shinshoji Temple. The Omotesando leading to it is as delightful as any such street in Japan. Highly recommend if you have a layover at Narita!

Remembering my long-time agent Robert Carrier who passed away just before Christmas. I signed with Robert in the early Nineties and have been with Carrier Talent ever since. Here he is with my son, Niko, soon after Niko was born. Such a beautiful gentle soul! R.I.P. Robert Carrier! 💖

Seasons Greetings, Friends! 🎄🕯️💖 Wishing you a happy and festive holiday season from beautiful Metchosin, BC. (Btw, couple of bucks hanging out under the rainbow).

Calgary, pleeeez. 🥶 (It's a dry cold). NOT!

Shot my first "celebrity" cameo video today. Can "Only Fans" be far behind???

If anyone ever asks me if I have a good relationship w my agent, I'll just show them this. (Btw he's 6'4", fifties, w 2 teenaged kids. I've known him for 25 years!)

Big thanks to both the Vancouver Asian Film Festival & the UBCP/ACTRA Awards for the opportunity to celebrate our industry & community. In these challenging & uncertain times it's doubly important to celebrate, with old & new friends alike, & reaffirm the joy we find in the work & in each other. ✌️♥️

Privileged to present at the UBCP/ACTRA Awards just now, celebrating the BC Film industry. We actors don't get to see each other at auditions like we used to, so it was great seeing all the old troupers and catching up!

Not surprised. Having migrated to both in the past week the Blue Sky experience definitely feels to me like pre-X Twitter. Not sure what Threads is. Like who posts on Threads independent of FB, IG and IG stories?

Look at us two OG--old guard, old goats, old geezers--whatever you want to call us! Always great to run into this guy!

First look at Yoshie Bancroft as Mitsue Sakamoto & Jeff Lillico as Ralph MacLean in the Stratford production of "Forgiveness" next season. Cannot wait to get started!

Toronto friends, I'll be participating in a few events around the Tom Hendry Awards this coming weekend, including this panel here. Hope to see you! Mon. Oct. 28, 1130am Elgin Winter Garden Theatre Centre

Proud moment when my boy made his UBC Thunderbird debut under the Friday Night Lights two nights ago, huge accomplishment for a freshman to make the field on a team vying for a championship! Half my DNA and a whole lotta parenting in this young specimen of manhood! Go T-Birds!

Excited to share that when my play "Forgiveness" makes its Stratford debut next summer, I'll simultaneously be making my Stratford debut as an actor, in "Forgiveness" & "As You Like It." Thrilled for this next chapter in my creative life! Details here: ow.ly/rN2P50TMzBk

Blessed to live in beautiful BC. Yesterday was like summer, full of sun and wildflowers. And if you're ever on the BC coast and have an opportunity to eat mussels from Lasqueti Island, they are the fattest most succulent mussels you will ever have!

After the boys of summer have gone.

I just now learned that dessicated is in fact spelled desiccated!

The kid reading Shogun is 14-year-old me circa 1977 or 1978 in Guelph, ON Canada! Essay on my circuitous Shogun journey here: facebook.com/10000924891914…

Canadian Actors Equity sends out their dues notices twice a year and it never fails that when I get it, I always feel like I JUST paid it. How did six months go by already? HOW!?!

Fire Lord Sozin eats lunch. As it took the Wizards in Hair&MU nearly 3 hrs to get me ready, I had to be very careful. Is this what the ZZ top guys go thru every freaking day!?! Happy Asian Heritage Month!

Hard to have more fun than winning your co-ed beer league slo-pitch season opener! Go Diamond Dawgs!

We have eggs! Also, today I learned that in Japan and other places where people hang their clothes to dry, the crows have learned to build their nests out of wire clothes hangers! What a rare opportunity to learn about these ubiquitous yet uniquely marvelous creatures!

Neither of our crows has actually spent much time in the nest they built, but this one's been sitting here in the rain all morning. I think she's laying her eggs!