The Bridge Project
　


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THE BRIDGE PROJECT
Richard Foreman and Sophie Haviland
interview
　Naoto Iina / 15 DEC 2006

The Bridge Project

18-29.NOV.2006
Kyoto Performing Arts Center

What is the Bridge Project?

The Bridge Project is an international art initiative founded by the NY based theater artist Richard Foreman and his long time collaborator Sophie Haviland.
THE BRIDGE PROJECT is building tangible and productive bridges between artists from different countries and mediums. Using the resources of international artists and creating networks from our base in New York, we provide a clear avenue for exchange between artistic centers thousands of miles apart.

Now in it’s third year, the Bridge Project involves 6 countries and the participation of over 120 artists.

Richard Foreman
interviewer 　Naoto Iina/ interpreter Yasuko Kurono,Rie Kato
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Sophie Haviland
interviewer 　Naoto Iina/ interpreter Yasuko Kurono
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photo: Paula Court 		Richard Foreman
Born June 10 1937, N.Y.C.

Brown University BA, (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) l959, Yale Drama School, MFA (Playwriting) l962. Honorary Doctorate Brown University 1993.
Founder & Artistic Director, Ontological-Hysteric Theater. (1968-current)

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.

http://www.ontological.com/

Sophie Haviland is a writer, director and producer. She has been working in experimental theater, performance and film since 1992 when she moved to New York from Australia. Haviland has written and directed numerous original theater pieces in New York, created multimedia performances and directed classical and contemporary texts. She was an artist-in-residence at California Institute of the Arts in 2000, where she wrote and directed an original work (Bad Behavior) in collaboration with Richard Foreman that was voted one of the top ten productions of 2000 by the Los Angeles Times.
As a producer and collaborative artist she has worked both in New York and internationally. Collaborations include: Richard Foreman, Bang on a Can, Ridge Theater, Three Legged Dog, Big Dance Theater and the filmmaker Hal Hartley.
Haviland was the Managing Director of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater from 1993- 1999 where she produced all the international tours for Richard Foreman (France, Italy, Denmark, Germany, Austria, United Kingdom), as well as his NY productions. She also created the Blueprint Series- a festival for emerging directors that won an OBIE award in 1995, and several other theater and performance festivals in New York.
In 2002 Haviland started Vestry Street Productions- an artist driven corporation that produces original film, music and performance.
Her work with the Bridge Project has been created in collaborations in Australia, Portugal, United Kingdom and Germany. In 2004 she completed her first music album in Australia - a collection of original songs (Road Kill Love). Her novel “The Anthropologist’s Daughter” will be published in 2007.