Born in 1933 in Kobe, Japan, Oida, trained from an early age in the traditional No-theatre"s classical kyogen style of acting by Okura-San, one of Japan"s greatest masters of the art, had sought a way to break out of the "fossilised" form of Japanese theatre after concluding his training as an actor. In Peter Brook, whom he met in Paris at an experiment for the Theatre of Nations in 1968, he found a "master" under whose guidance he was able to develop an entirely new direction in his acting.

After years of performance with the theatre icon Peter Brook, the Japanese actor, director and teacher, Yoshi Oida, has created his own acting style. As part of Brook`s International Theatre Group, Yoshi Oida performed on various stages all over the world.