Guest Lecturers
Glenn Shepard Jr. PhD
ethnobotanist, medical anthropologist, and filmmaker focusing on the indigenous peoples of the Amazon
Daniel Libeskind
architect, artist, and set designer, currently working as the principal architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan
Clifford Ross
american artist working in sculpture, painting, photography and video
Daniel Knox
songwriter/composer
Daniel Levitin
McGill University Professor of Psychology
Hilton Als
American writer and theater critic currently writing for The New Yorker
Benno Temple
Director of Gemeente Museum in the Hague, Netherlands
Artists In Residence

Illenk Andilolo (Indonesia)
Pavlina Andriopoulou (Greece)
Nataliya Andrukhnenko (Ukraine)
Alessandra Armenise (Italy)
Savvas Baltzis (Cyprus)
Diane Barbier-Mueller (Switzerland)
Annika Bardos (Germany)
Joëlle Beli Titi (Dem. Rep. Congo)
Alexander Berlage (Australia)
Scott Bolman (USA)
Angela Bonacci (USA)
Nikitas Broukakis (Greece)
Carlo Augusto Calil (Brazil)
Bianca Casady (USA)
Sierra Casady (USA)
Rui Castro (France)
Nina Chalot (France)
Charles Chemin (France)
Chen Yu Chen (Taiwan)
Ivan Cheng (Australia)
Lucinda Childs (USA)
Stephen Crawford (USA)
Adrianna De Svastich (USA)
Lovis Dengler (Germany)
Nectarios
Dionysatos (Greece)
Roman Dolzhanskyi (Russia)
Catherine Eberstadt (USA)

Stephanie Engeln (Germany)
Francesca Fini (Italy)
Giovanni Firpo (Italy)
Andreas Fuchs (Germany)
Tal Gafny (Israel)
Maristela Gaudio
Elisa Ghysels (Belgium)
Andy Gilchrist (USA)
Philipp Gran (Germany)
Herbert Grönemeyer (Germany)
Andre Guerreo Lopez (Brazil)
Ellen Hammer (Germany)
Walter Hanna (Australia)
Tilman Hecker (Germany)
Dawood Hilmandi (Afghanistan)
Katherine Hola (Czech Republic)
Spencer Holden (USA)
Jakub Jahn (Czech Republic)
Thiago Jansen (Brazil)
Jim Jarmusch (USA)
Jake Jeon (South Korea)
Tomek Jeziorski (Poland)
Kayije Kagame (Rwanda)
Bozkurt Karasu (Turkey)
Abdi Karya (Indonesia)
Phil Kline (USA)
Christopher Knowles (USA)
Jennifer Koh (USA)

Konrad Kuhn (Germany)
Stefan Kurt (Germany)
Annick Lavallee-Benny (Canada)
Fanny Lavergne (France)
Laurent Le Bec (Belgium)
Adam Lenz (USA)
Jiun-Cheng Liao (Taiwan)
Krystian Lyson (Poland)
Jose Macian (USA)
Gladston Makhib (Moldova)
Jeffrey Mansfield (USA)
David Markovic (Czech Republic)
Mariano Marquez (Peru/USA)
Tristan Mengin (France)
Gintare Minelgaite (Lithuania)
Johann Mittman (Germany)
Julian Mommert (Germany)
Samuel Mommert (Germany)
Rui Monteiro (Portugal)
Maria Nafpliotoum (Greece)
Christopher Nell (Germany)
Hanjo Nonnast (USA)
Brian O’mahoney (USA)
Nicola Panzer (Germany)
Dimitris Papaioannou (Greece)
Eric Parnes (USA)
Matthew Petty (USA)
Darryl Pickney (USA)

Arthur Prader (France)
Evangelia Rantou (Greece)
Jacques Reynaud (Italy)
Elka Rifkin (USA)
Annchristin Rommen (Germany)
Helena Anine Schindler (Germany)
Benjamin Schmidt (Germany)
Mette Sterre (Netherlands)
Dorian Šilec Petek (Slovenia)
Kalliopi Simou (Greece)
Drossos Skotis (Greece)
Jessica Smith (USA)
Christina Sotiropoulou (Greece)
Carlos Soto (USA)
Zdenek Stehule (Czech Republic)
Yashi Tabassomi (Germany)
Michael Theophanous (Greece)
Anna Tilling (Germany)
John Torres (USA)
Emil Trybalski (Romania)
Emma Tubbs (Uk)
Vincent Van Randen (Netherlands)
Luis Villar (Venezuela)
Serge Von Arx (Switzerland)
Julia Von Leliwa (Germany)
Hal Wilner (USA)
Piotr Zasada (Poland)
Bryan Zuniga (Costa Rica)

Theater Workshops

THE JUNGLE BOOK, based on Rudyard Kipling’s novel
Robert Wilson will stage stories from Kipling’s well-known Jungle Book, to open at the Teatro dell’Arte in Milan, Italy in October 2015, and the Théâtre de la Ville, Paris shortly after

GARRINCHA (working title)
A theater piece about Manuel Francisco dos Santos (“Garrincha”), a legendary Brazilian footballer widely regarded as the best dribbler in the world, to open in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2016

LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
A new play to be developed with Lucinda Childs and violinist Jennifer Koh about the composer Bach and his works for solo violin

PUSHKIN’S FAIRY TALES
A new theater production based on the five fairy tales by the great Russian poet, Aleksandr Pushkin for a June 2015 opening in Moscow starring Evgenyi Mironov

Opera Workshops

TESLA IN NEW YORK (working title) by Jim Jarmusch and Phil Kline
A new opera about the new york years of forgotten genius Nikola Tesla, to open at the National Theater of Croatia in December of 2016

SATYAGRAHA by Philip Glass
A workshop of Philip Glass’s SATYAGRAHA, opening at the Lithuanian National Opera in Vilnius in November of 2016

AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS by Gian Carlo Menotti
A commission from the Peak Performance series at Montclair University to direct this children’s Christmas classic, which was written as the first opera for TV, to premiere in September 2016

LA TRAVIATA
Robert Wilson’s unique staging of Verdi’s classic, originally commissioned by the late Gerard Mortier, now bound to open in Linz, Austria in September 2015, and Perm, Siberia in june 2016

Visual Arts Workshops

BECKETT SHORTS (working title)
A commission to create short videos on Samuel Beckett’s RADIO PLAYS, from 15 minutes in length down to only 25 seconds

MARINA ELIADES GALLERY
The exhibition in Athens will open in March of 2015 and feature wilson’s works from early drawings to furniture design and the latest video portraits

PUPPET COLLECTION DRESDEN
An exhibition that will shed light on the Dresden State Art Collection’s puppet collection and juxtapose them with oceanic, tribal and contemporary art pieces

Other Workshops

THE TOWER OF BABEL
Wilson’s second radio play will be part of a series of biblical stories and is set to focus on the myth of the Tower of Babel, to be broadcasted by the Hessian Broadcasting Corporation, Germany

PUPPET COLLECTION DRESDEN
An exhibition that will shed light on the Dresden State Art Collection’s puppet collection and juxtapose them with oceanic, tribal and contemporary art pieces