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Oct 04, 1941 Waco, Texas, United States 82 years old
American avant-garde stage director and playwright
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- Robert Wilson (born October 4, 1941) is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by the media as "[America]'s – or even the world's – foremost vanguard 'theater artist'".
- Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer. He is best known for his collaborations with Philip Glass on Einstein on the Beach, and with numerous other artists, including Heiner Müller, William S.
- Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, Gavin Bryars, Rufus Wainwright, Marina Abramovic, Willem Dafoe, Isabelle Huppert, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Darryl Pinckney, Richard Gallo, and Lady Gaga.
- In 1991 Wilson established The Watermill Center, "a laboratory for performance" on the East End of Long Island, New York.
- He has received more commissions for new works in Europe than in the United States since the late 20th century, regularly working with opera and theatre companies, as well as cultural festivals.
