Richard Foreman (born in New York on 10 June 1937) is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer. He is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
Richard Foreman graduated from Brown University (B.A. 1959), and received an MFA in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama in 1962. In 1993, Brown presented him with an honorary doctorate. In 1968 he founded the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, which began as an art-oriented project in th...
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Richard Foreman (born in New York on 10 June 1937) is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer. He is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
Richard Foreman graduated from Brown University (B.A. 1959), and received an MFA in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama in 1962. In 1993, Brown presented him with an honorary doctorate. In 1968 he founded the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, which began as an art-oriented project in the New York district of Soho, and later moved to a semi-permanent "home" at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. Since 1992, the non-profit organization has been in residence at the theater at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery.
Foreman's dramatic works are driven by the notion of a constant reawakening of the audience; he is one of the major artists creating substantial works in the avant garde performance movement, now largely referred to as post-dramatic theater. Instead of focusing on conflict to shape his theatrical structure, Foreman's work draws...
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