Elizabeth Dowd, an internationally renowned actress and Noh artist, will give the lecture and demonstration in the Community Room of the Classroom Building at the Boulder County Campus, 2121 Miller Drive, Longmont. The lecture begins at 7 p.m. Admission is free, but seating is limited.
Dowd is in the area performing as a guest artist for Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s upcoming production of “Doubt” by John Patrick Shanley. Dowd is a 32-year member of the nationally recognized Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble where she acts, directs, teaches, and produces the Noh Training Project (NTP), a three-week summer intensive.
Dowd’s Noh training began in 1992 after a six-month Creative Artist Fellowship through the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. In Japan, she began her study of Noh with Richard Emmert, the leading non-Japanese expert in Noh performance and founder of the Noh Training Project in Tokyo. Through his classes she trained with Noh actor Omura Sadamu.
Upon her return to the United States, Dowd established with Emmert a U.S. base for the Noh Training Project in Bloomsburg, Pa. In its 16th year, the Noh Training Project at the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble has earned an international reputation for the most in-depth training available in the dance, chant, instruments, and masks of Noh outside of Japan, attracting students from Chile, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Nepal, the Netherlands, Japan, and across the U.S. In addition to her producing responsibilities at NTP, Dowd teaches the first-year students and continues her own studies with Master Teachers Matsui Akira, Oshima Kinue, and Kama Mitsuo.
Dowd’s training in Noh led her to become a Founding Member of Theatre Nohgaku, a company dedicated to the creation and performance of English-language Noh, new works, and traditional Noh in translation. With Theatre Nohgaku, Dowd has toured “At The Hawk’s Well,” by W.B. Yeats (to seven U.S. cities), the world premiere of “Pine Barrens” by Greg Giovanni (at the North Carolina School for the Arts and Duke University), and, most recently, the world premiere of “Pagoda,” by British playwright Jannette Cheong (London, Dublin, Oxford, Paris).
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