ELIZABETH DOWD began her study of Noh in 1992 studying with Richard Emmert and Omura Sadamu through a Creative Artist Fellowship from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission.
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NAOKO MAESHIBA, a native of Kobe, Japan, has been directing, choreographing, and performing multi-disciplinary works within and outside of the U.S.
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MATTHEW DUBROFF has been studying noh theatre since he first went to Japan in 1988. He returned in 1990 and began working with Richard Emmert and the first Noh Training Project.
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GARY MATHEWS was born in Owensboro, Kentucky and educated in Classical Languages and Comparative Literature at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught on the faculties of Berkeley, San Francisco State University, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and North Carolina State University.
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RICHARD EMMERT has studied, taught and performed classical noh drama in Japan since 1973. He is a certified Kita school noh instructor, and has studied all aspects of noh performance with a special concentration in movement and music.
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JUBILITH MOORE A graduate of Bard College, Jubilith is the Artistic Director of Theatre of Yugen and has been with the company, and a student of Yuriko Doi, since 1993.
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JAMES FERNER, originally from New Jersey, has lived in Tokyo since 1991. He has been studying noh with Sadamu Omura and Richard Emmert as well as the kotsuzumi and the otsuzumi with Mitsuo Kama.
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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.
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GREG GIOVANNI has been creating new works since 1988. From 1988-99 he was Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of Big Mess Theatre, an itinerant group that performed at many of the performance spaces, warehouses and nightclubs in the Philadelphia area.
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LLUIS VALLS (Joint Artistic Director and Perfomer for Theatre of Yugen, Performer for Theatre Nohgaku) Originally from Barcelona Spain, Lluis lived and studied in Miami before transferring to San Francisco State University and graduating with a BA in Dramatic Arts where he studied Suzuki Method for two years with Dr. Yukihiro Goto.
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TOM O'CONNOR became a member of Theatre Nohgaku in 2006. He has performed on three tours with TN, has served on the steering committee since 2008, and currently serves as managing director for the company.
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DAVE SURTASKY is a photographer and theatre artist working in the Greater Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area. A native of York County, Pennsylvania, he is a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and has studied noh with Richard Emmert since 2006.
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MAYA GINGERY is a dance artist and classically-trained flutist based in Los Angeles. She received her degrees at the University of California at San Diego and California Institute of the Arts, where she was a student of flute, contemporary music and world music and dance forms.
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MORIT GAIFMAN began studying noh at the Noh Training Project in Bloomsburg in 2003, not long after graduating from Columbia University with a degree in musicology. Morit has studied a variety of music and theater performing styles.
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SIIRI SCOTT is the Head of Acting and Directing in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, where she coordinates classes, directs and prepares actors for graduate training and professional careers.
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MARIKO ANNO holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Flute Performance and Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a minor in Ethnomusicology. Since 2005, she has lived in Japan and researched the musical aspects of traditional and contemporary noh with professional noh performers and scholars.
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MICHAEL GARDINER is a music theorist and a laptop composer/improviser. His research interests include aspects of musical space in 12th century chant (with an analytic dissertation on Hildegard von Bingen) and computer generated images of musical sound.
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JOYCE S. LIM, from Malaysia, splits her time between Asia and USA. Her choreography has been presented internationally and in venues in New York such as Dance Theater Workshop, and Danspace Project, with funding from Robison Foundation, Nippon Foundation, and Asian Cultural Council, among others.
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YOKO LAYER After graduating from high school in Japan, Yoko Layer modeled and acted for several magazines, television and theater companies. She later graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University and then began to study the Stanislavsky system from Russian director Leonid Anisimov.
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KEVIN SALFEN is Assistant Professor of Music History at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio. He took his first two degrees in composition and his Ph.D. in musicology at the University of North Texas. His dissertation was on the early collaborations of Benjamin Britten and the writer William Plomer.
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