Tatsuya Yasumoto （安本達也） is a Japanese freelance actor and a multiple theatre performer who describes himself as a "theatre maker."
He started studying drama and various theatrical art forms including ballet and contemporary dance at Osaka University of Arts in 2005 and graduated in 2009.
While he was enrolled at the university, he began to expand his field of study outside the university. He had an experience of Kyogen theatre a form of Japanese traditional theatre) and personally studied under Doji Shigeyama in Kyoto in 2006. In 2007 he started learning Japanese stage sword fighting and choreographed for 'また会おうと龍馬は言った'.
He was constantly invited by several companies and directors to perform with such artists as Tokyo Girl (held by Yosuke Uesaki), Black Cat Company, Fancy, and Mikako Sato (director) until he finished his degree in Japan.
In 2010 he moved to Cambridge and started his learning in the U.K.
He was awarded The RADA Shakespeare Certificate Bronze Level of both monologue and duologue as a part of Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts (CSVPA) program.
He also trained on East15’s Physical Theatre (BA) course from 2011 to 2014.
The education at East15 enlarged his knowledge of theatre, his standpoint and helped shape him as a theatre maker. He learnt not only physical skills such as movement, gymnastics and aerial but also mask work, mask designing/making, puppeteering, puppet making, object manipulation (studying under Lucy Foster), simple clown, and Commedia dell' Arte (studying under Andre Pink). He also experienced neutral mask, biomechanics, poor theatre, Suzuki method, and stage combat (unarmed/sword).
In 2014 he became more curious about how he applied his physical skills to his own style of creation, and he started his own study; mainly focused on contact improvisation, outside the university. He firmed his thought that movement was one of significant elements he wanted to explore in his work. During this time he was also taking several movement classes in New York.
Tatsuya has started working with James Sutherland, who is a founder of C.I.T.A - a group of international theatre artists based in Tokyo from August 2014.
He is keen to learn any forms of theatre available. He is very interested in investigation into a new form of theatre to create/recreate to make work that is practical and immediate to the spectators.

From September 2014 he has started working as an associate director at C.I.T.A.