Bruno Bayen (13 November 1950 – 6 December 2016) was a French novelist, playwright and theatre director.
[1][2][3] Bayen founded La Fabrique, a theatre company, and directed several plays for five years.
[1] Over the course of his career, he went on to direct 30 plays, some of his own as well as plays by German playwrights Frank Wedekind, Georg Büchner, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
[4] Bayen was the author of more than a dozen books, including novels, plays and essays.
[4] In 2006, he was disinvited from a talk at the Comédie-Française for his ties to Handke, who had attended Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic's funeral.