Dwight Sora

Dwight Sora is a native of River Forest, IL. As an actor, he has appeared onstage with Filament Theatre (Heart Strings), The Gift Theatre (At the Vanishing Point), Strawdog Theatre (Cymbeline), Lifeline Theatre (The Three Musketeers) and Raven Theatre (12 Angry Men). He also understudied the Midwest premieres of Zac Efron (Token Theatre), Durango (Silk Road) and After the Quake (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). He is a past ensemble member of the educational theater companies Imagination Theater and Erasing the Distance, and appeared in Chicago Children’s Theatre’s Red Kite Treasure Adventure. A Japanese speaker and 4th degree black belt in the Japanese martial art of aikido, Dwight has also worked to present the history of Japanese Americans and Japanese culture, providing the audio tour narration for the “Hokusai and Ukiyoe” exhibit at McAninch Arts Center, character voices for “Prisoner in Our Homeland” (an online interactive game teaching about the WWII Japanese American internment) and the “Defining Courage” exhibit at the Los Angeles Japanese American Museum, and choreographing live demos of aikido for the annual Ginza Holiday Japanese Cultural Festival in Chicago and the Anime Magic convention.