John Emigh

John Emigh (born 3 September 1941) is professor emeritus from the Departments of Theatre, Speech and Dance and of English at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

He entered Amherst College, became interested in theater arts, and took a year off to travel to Spain and Morocco to study and translate plays by Federico García Lorca.

Since then, he has made several more research trips to Asia, investigating the street jesters and court fools of Rajasthan, the use of masks in Eastern India, and the changing dynamics of performance in Bali.

[citation needed] His 1985 documentary film, Hajari Bhand of Rajasthan: Jester without a Court,[1] has been shown at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.

[citation needed] He was the founding chairperson of the Association for Asian Performance and served as chair of Brown University's Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance from 1987 to 1993.