About TN

JUBILITH MOORE (Joint Artistic Director and Perfomer for Theatre of Yugen, Performer for Theatre Nohgaku) A graduate of Bard College, Jubilith is one of the incoming Artistic Directors of Theatre of Yugen and has been with the company since 1993. She has also studied noh with Richard Emmert and Akira Matsui and has recently returned from a Japan Foundation Fellowship in Tokyo. While there she continued training with Richard Emmert and had the honor of studying with Kanze School noh master Shiro Nomura, kyogen master Yukio Ishida (Izumi school) and kotsuzumi noh drum with Mitsuo Kama (Ko School). With Theatre of Yugen she has performed in Janine Beichman’s Drifting Fires; the modern noh play, The Well of Ignorance (or Down the Dark Well) by Dr. Tomio Tada; a noh adaptation of William Butler Yeats’ Purgatory; in several productions of Noh Christmas Carol; last year in Erik Ehn’s Crazy Horse; and a variety of roles in the company’s repertoire of kyogen comedies. This Spring she worked collectively with Theatre of Yugen’s Joint Artistic team to create the original experimental piece The Clay Play. Other noteworthy roles are Cecelia in Smartmouth Theater’s production of Erik Ehn’s Tailings; Mina in Stephen Dietz’ Dracula performed with the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble; the role of the Ghost in Woman’s Will production of Hamlet (the melancholy dame), and Portia in their Merchant of Venice. Jubilith has been an Artist in Residence at San Francisco’s School of the Arts since 1998.