自じ演えん

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

acting in one's own production; directing one's own performance

Used for someone who both creates and performs in their own work, such as a playwright acting in their own play or a filmmaker directing and starring in their own film.

• 彼かれは自じ作さくの映えい画がで自じ演えんした。

  He acted in his own film.

• その舞ぶ台たいでは、脚きゃく本ほん家かが自じ演えんすることになっている。

  In that play, the playwright is supposed to perform in it himself.