Robert Wilson
Directing · Director · Lighting Design · Stage Director
Born Oct 4, 1941 · Waco, Texas, USA
Active 1973–2025 · Awards: Steiger Award, Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bessie Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship, Berliner Bär, Europe Theatre Prize, Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Hamburg), honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University
Robert Wilson is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright. 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.
Filmography
The King is Dead (2025)Händel / Mozart: Der Messias (2020) — DirectorTurandot (2020) — Director · Stage Director · Lighting DesignLe Trouvère (2019) — DirectorA Winter Fable (2017) — Sound · DirectorVerdi: La Traviata (2016) — Director · Lighting Design · Stage DirectorAdam's Passion (2015) — Director · Set Designer · AuthorEinstein on the Beach (2014) — Set Designer · DirectorDebussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2012) — Director · Stage DirectorShakespeare’s Sonnets (2009) — Director · Production Design · WriterL'Orfeo (2009) — Director · Lighting Director · Set DesignerVoom Portraits (2007) — DirectorAbsolute Wilson (2006)Les Fables (2005) — DirectorGluck: Orphée et Eurydice (2000) — DirectorAlceste (1999) — DirectorLa mort de Molière (1994) — Molière · Director · WriterThe Black Rider (1990) — Director · Production Design · CreatorLa femme à la cafetière (1989) — DirectorRobert Wilson and the Civil Wars (1987) — ProducerStations (1982) — Director · WriterDeafman Glance (1981) — Production Design · DirectorVideo 50 (1978) — Director · Director of PhotographyThe Life and Times of Joseph Stalin: An Opera (1973) — Director · Writer