Manabu Nagaoka

Biography

Nagaoka has been working in vast areas of entertainment industry for over 15 years.

Currently, he serves as the producer for Sesame Workshop to produce and manage their international co-production of Sesame Street in Japan. He plays essential roles in bringing educators, animators, and television program creators together from Japan and the U.S., and coordinates publicity, outreach and other branding activities around Sesame Street brand.

Nagaoka keeps a position as a supervising producer at K&L Advertising, a Young & Rubicam/WPP company for their multi-ethnic commercials in over 16 language markets.

Nagaoka produced a feature film, "UR4 Given" by Cinque Lee, a younger brother of Spike Lee which premiered at Urban World Film Festival in August 04 and has screened in many other international film festivals.

Other past works that he was involved with in different capacities include a 5 hour omnibus film, "Momentous Events: Russia in the 90s," by Jean-luc Godard, Ken Russell, Werner Herzog, Lina Wertmullar and Nobuhiko Ohbayashi, an animated feature, "Metropolis," by world famous anime directors, Rintaro/Katsuhiro Ohtomo, a 12 minute Resfest select short, "Leave Luck to Heaven," by an award winning director, Todd Lincoln., among numerous other projects.

In theater, he produced traditional Japanese monkey performance for White House, hosted by Barbara Bush, and world premiere of Grand Kabuki style Japanese monkey stage, a Sarumawashi Samurai Story at Lincoln Center, in New York.