Richard Foreman

Richard Foreman (1937-2025) collaborated with Stanley Silverman on the musical Dr. Selavy’s Magic Theatre and on the Obie Award-winning Elephant Steps, as well as six other plays. Mr. Foreman was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University with a degree in playwriting from the Yale Drama School. In 1968 he founded the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, which became one of the most famous avant-garde “underground” theatres in the world and received for Mr. Foreman critical raves as a unique theatrical innovator and poet. It was called “the most important new theatre since Beckett.”