JOHN OGLEVEE is an actor/performer/musician and founding member of Theatre Nohgaku. He began his study of noh in 1996 with Richard Emmert and has since gone on to study with Sadamu Omura, Akira Matsui and Kinue Oshima of the Kita School and Mitsuo Kama of the Ko School. He holds an MFA in Asian performance from the University of Hawai’i and a BFA in drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Apart from noh, he has performed extensively, as a performer in Europe, North America and Asia with a variety of companies (Rinkogun, Theatre of Yugen, Kee Company, Bread and Puppet, GAle GAtes et al.) and directors (Richard Foreman, Peter Schumann, Min Tanaka). As a member of Yoji Sakate’s Rinkogun in Tokyo he has performed in the award winning Darumasan ga Koronda, Joen Sarenakatta “Sannin Shimai”, as well as the Japanese version of David Hare’s "Power of Yes."