Mai Ishikawa is a Japanese theatre maker, translator, poet and performer based in Dublin. She has translated several plays into Japanese for full productions. She won the Unohana Prize in the 8th Kyoto Writing Competition and was shortlisted in the Westival International Poetry Competition 2024. Her poems have appeared in The Stony Thursday Book, Banshee, Channel, Ragaire, The Storms and Ink Sweat & Tears. She incorporates poetry in her theatre work, combining poetic dialogue with physical movement, to suspend time and find the extraordinary in the ordinary.