The professional producing arm of CalArts' School of Theater combines the vision of internationally celebrated guest artists with the talents of CalArts faculty, alumni and students. Noted in the U.S. and abroad for staging experimental theater works with superlative production standards, recent CNT productions have included the premieres of Richard Foreman's Bad Behavior, Zaven Pare's Theater of the Ears, and Travis Preston's bold postmodern version of King Lear.