About TN

ELIZABETH DOWD has acted, directed, and taught, with the nationally recognized Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble for 27 of its 28-year history. She has served as a theatre advisory panelist for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Pew Charitable Trusts. In 1997 Elizabeth was invited to join a consortium of ensemble theatre artists on a trip to Budapest to see the work of their newly emerging alternative theatres. As a Creative Drama specialist, Elizabeth has been invited to teach in programs for Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre, the Bay Area Youth Theatre, and for school districts across Pennsylvania. In 1992-93 she spent six months in Japan on a Creative Artist Fellowship, funded through the Japan-US Friendship Commission, studying traditional Japanese Theatre. As a result of her studies with Richard Emmert in noh, she co-founded with him a U.S. base for his Noh Training Project, hosted by the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. In 2006, The Noh Training Project, now in its 12th year, will run from July 17th-August 4th. In September 2002 Elizabeth performed in Theatre Nohgaku’s seven-city US tour of W. B. Yeats’ At the Hawk’s Well, produced by Theatre of Yugen. In addition to her work with BTE and Theatre Nohgaku, Elizabeth has been an adjunct professor at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA and a Panel Review member for the Fulbright Senior Specialists program.