About TN

JOHN OGLEVEE is an actor/performer/musician currently based in Tokyo. He has been studying, performing and teaching noh since 1996 under the tutelage of Richard Emmert, Omura Sadamu, Kama Mitsuo and Akira Matsui. He holds a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in drama. Apart from noh, he has performed extensively, as an actor, in the New York City area, Europe, North America and Asia with a variety of companies. These include: Richard Foreman’s Ontological Hysteric, Peter Schumann’s Bread and Puppet, Min Tanaka’s Maijuku and GAle GAtes et al, of which he was a founding member. He has also worked with directors Melissa Kievman, Ian Belton in theatre works as well as John Bruce on a film project yet to be released. Recently he has had the pleasure of performing in: The Three Sisters Never Performed as well as the award winning Daruma Falls Down with Yoji Sakete’s Theater Company Rinkogun. Both pieces toured extensively in Japan. Past credits include: the final performance of GAle GAtes et al. entitled The World at the Whitney Museum in New York, Theatre Nohgaku’s American tour of At the Hawks Well, Theatre of Yugen’s Crazy Horse, an original piece entitled Home at Theater X in Tokyo, as well as the role of Johanne in a Japanese language version of Salome. He can currently be heard on Japnese radio on NHK’s Kiso Eigo 2 and on the show Iron Chef in North America.