Richard Elfman

A filmmaker and musician who, with his younger brother Danny Elfman, founded the theatrical troupe Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo — fifteen musicians playing thirty instruments in a surreal commedia dell'arte act that won The Gong Show in 1976 before evolving into the band Oingo Boingo. He left music for film in 1979 and directed the cult musical Forbidden Zone (1982), later screened at MoMA alongside a Tim Burton exhibition.