SUMIKO

June Fukumura

SUMIKO

June Fukumura
jfukumura@gmail.com

June Fukumura is a Japanese-Canadian theatre maker based in Vancouver. By day she is a polite, well-mannered theatre artist and by night she is her dark humoured, hyper kawaii, raunchy clown alter-ego, SUMIKO. Sumiko dices, slices, and blends up Japanese stereotypes and serves up a zany, East-meets-West comedy about Life, Death, and Love. Winner of the 2019 Vancouver Fringe Festival's Public Market Pick of the Fringe.

My Name is SUMIKO (Vancouver Fringe Festival, 2019) Photos by Sheng Ho

Reviews.

"My Name is Sumiko is a balancing act, a place where humour and darkness flow seamlessly together to create an experience that is deeply uncomfortable and gut bustingly funny."
- Emily Chou https://www.sadmag.ca/blog/2019/9/8/my-name-is-sumiko-like-a-childrens-play-but-for-adult-fringers

"She is a gateway Clown for folks who are afraid of clowns[...] sparking more joy than a thousand life coaches on a bullet train to comedy heaven.... or something even BETTER!!!" -Jacques Lalonde Coop Radio (☆☆☆☆☆)

"June Fukumura is the best physical comedian I HAVE EVER SEEN."
-Vancouver Arts Review www.thevancouverartsreview.com/2019/10/vancouver-fringe-2019-reviews/

"a kind of miracle that only comes along every couple of years."
- Tetsuro Shigematsu, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre

"charm, energy, and over the top silliness"
—ILiveInEastVan.com https://iliveineastvan.com/2019/09/09/tiva-quinn-reviews-my-name-is-sumiko-part-of-this-years-fringe-festival/

"Subversive, silly, sexual, philosophical, political"
-Jennifer Pielak

Past.

Friday, May 15th from 6pm - 7pm (PST)

Sumiko's Show Time! is a new online variety show with your host, Sumiko! Interviews, games, music and more! This zany variety show is your daily dose of pure escapist entertainment!

2019 Vancouver Fringe Festival

My Name is SUMIKO
Fringe @ What Lab (1814 Pandora St.)
60 minutes

Sept. 5th - 6:45pm *1/2 price
Sept. 7th - 5:00pm
Sept. 8th - 8:30pm
Sept. 11th - 6:45pm
Sept. 12th - 8:30pm
Sept.14th - 3:15pm
Sept. 15th - 8:30pm

My Name is SUMIKO a new clown performance created by New(to)Town Collective premiering at the Vancouver Fringe Festival! My Name is SUMIKO interweaves clown turns, J-Pop tunes, and Japanese variety show games into an unstoppably zany, East-meets-West comic experience. Sumiko invites the audience into her dark, twisted, and magical world where she meets Death, falls in Love, and battles her inner demons. My Name is SUMIKO is a delightful exorcism of our deepest fears, shame, and taboos.

43rd Annual Powell Street Festival

Undōkai an interactive game show with SumikoSaturday August 3
Noon - 12:30pm
Demo Area (Dunlevy and Alexander St.)
FREE

Undōkai or sports day is a family friendly, interactive variety game show hosted by June Fukumura. Audience will be invited to play a series of hilarious classic Japanese games and win some wacky prizes! The audience can simply watch, they can compete with one another, or they can even challenge one of the clowns who will be playing with them!

Photo credit: Kayla Isomura

Hunch Festival of Solo Performances 2019

Paul Anthony's Talent Time 2019