Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble

NTP Faculty

KINUE OSHIMA - Master Teacher
Kinue Oshima is a master actor- teacher of the Kita School of Noh and the is the sole professional female performer in that school. Performing on a noh stage for the first time at the age of two, she comes from a distinguished line of Kita Noh actors. She is a graduate of the Japanese Traditional Arts Department of Tokyo National University of Arts. She has taught Noh abroad as a guest Master Teacher at the National University of Arts in Taiwan, at the University of Hawaii, and for several years at the Noh Training Project as well as performances across Europe.

RICHARD EMMERT - NTP Founder/Director and Head Instructor
A certified Kita school noh instructor, Richard Emmert has studied, taught and performed noh in Japan since 1973. He is a professor at Musashino University in Tokyo where he teaches Asian Theatre and Music. Along with the Bloomsburg NTP, Emmert teaches an on-going semi-intensive Noh Training Project in Tokyo and is the Artistic Director and founder of Theatre Nohgaku which performs noh plays in English and includes many past participants of NTP.

ELIZABETH DOWD - Producing Director and Dance-Chant Instructor
Elizabeth began her study of Noh with Richard Emmert in Tokyo in 1992 through a six month Japan-United States Friendship Commission grant. In 1995, she partnered with Emmert to co-found the US-based Noh Training Project. She has also studied Noh with Sadamu Omura, Akira Matsui, Mitsuo Kama, and Kinue Oshima. In addition to her full time work as a 31 year member of the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Elizabeth teaches introductory Noh workshops at universities. She has served as an adjunct faculty member at Bloomsburg University, and a founding member of Theatre Nohgaku with whom she has toured At the Hawk's Well and Pine Barrens and Pagoda.

MITSUO KAMA - Master Drumming Teacher

Mitsuo Kama will be on leave the summer of 2010.

Mitsuo Kama began studying the chant of noh in 1967 with Kita actor Tani Daisaku, and later kotsuzumi with Ko school master drummer Kamei Shun'ichi and otsuzumi with Kadono school Living National Treasure Kamei Tadao. He has taught students in his own Sanko-Kai classes since 1985 and at the Bloomsburg NTP since 2003. He has also performed in Theatre Nohgaku tours of At the Hawk's Well, Pine Barrens, Crazy Jane and in the 2009 the world premiere tour of Jannette Cheong's, Pagoda which toured to London, Oxford, Dublin, and Paris.

MARIKO ANNO- Flute Instructor
MAriko Anno holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Flute Performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 2005, she has lived in Japan and researched the musical aspects of Noh with professional Noh performers and scholars. She has trained extensively in nohkan with Isso Yukihiro, Richard Emmert, and Isso Yoji. Additionally, she is well versed in other aspects of Noh having trained in ko-tsuzumi with Sowa Masahiro, and shimai and utai with Richard Emmert and Omura Sadamu. Presently, Mariko is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku).

 

 

Click here to see photos of the 2009 NTP performance of Funabenkei.

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