Richard Emmert

Richard Emmert is professor of Asian Performance at Musashino University and a certified Kita school noh instructor. Born in the USA, he has studied, taught and performed classical noh drama in Japan since 1973, and led a Noh Training Project in Bloomsburg (US) for 20 years. He directs Noh Training Projects in Tokyo, and in the UK. He co-authored (with Monica Bethe) Noh Performance Guides, and is working on a complete series of noh play summaries for the National Noh Theatre. Emmert has led noh performance projects around the world and composed/directed/performed in eleven English noh plays, including Jannette Cheong’s Pagoda (2009, 2011). He is founder and artistic director of Theatre Nohgaku.