Richard Foreman, Text and Direction
Sophie Haviland , Text and Direction
Nataki Garrett, Assistant Director
Peter Ksander, Scenic Design
Katrina Werner, Costume Design
Miranda Hardy, Lighting Design
Pierre Dupree, Sound Design
Leon Rothenberg, Sound Design
Ron Thacker, Technical Director
Rebecca Saporito, Stage Manager
Wes Wyse, Assistant Stage Manager
Shaughn Buchholz, Performer
YunJung Chang, Performer
Monica Marie Contreras, Performer
Kathryn Falcone, Performer
Lawrence Lacey, Performer
Charles Leonard, Performer
Waleed Moursi, Performer
Adrienne Pearson, Performer
Allain Rochel, Performer
Nika Serras, Performer
Bad Behavior is a new work created by celebrated writer-director Richard Foreman in association with Sophie Haviland. In it, a dozen lost souls confront heartache and sexual longing and manage to take the first tentative steps in transforming them into moments of mystical transcendence. The production was named one of the 10 best theater productions of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times.
Richard Foreman has written, directed and designed over fifty of his own plays both in New York City and abroad. Five of his plays have received “OBIE” awards as best play of the year—and he has received five other “OBIE’S” for directing and for ‘sustained achievement’. He has received the annual Literature award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a “Lifetime Achievement in the Theater” award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN Club Master American Dramatist Award, a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, and in 2004 was elected officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His archives and work materials have recently been acquired by the Bobst Library at NYU.
Foreman is the founder and artistic director of the non-profit Ontological-Hysteric Theater (1968-present). Since the early seventies his work and company have been funded by the NEA, NYSCA, as well as many other foundations and private individuals. In the early 1980s a branch of the theater was established in Paris and funded by the French government. The theater is currently located in the historic St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery in New York City’s East Village neighborhood, and serves as a home to Foreman’s annual productions as well as to other local and international artists.