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Moderated by Tobias Bieseke
Michael Rau is a live performance director specialising in new theatre, opera and digital media projects. He has worked internationally in Germany, Brazil, the UK, Ireland, Canada and the Czech Republic. He has performed in New York City at Lincoln Center, The Public Theatre. Regionally, his work has been seen at the Ingenuity Festival in Cleveland, OH, and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA. He has developed new plays at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Lark, and the Kennedy Center. Michael Rau is a fellow of the Likhachev Foundation, the Kennedy Center and the National New Play Network. He has been a resident artist at the Orchard Project, E|MERGE and the Tribeca Performing Arts Centre. He has been an assistant director for Anne Bogart, Les Waters, Robert Woodruff and Ivo Van Hove. He is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and Professor of Directing and Playwriting at Stanford University.
Michael Rau and Michael Yates Crowley have been working together since 2007 and founded the company ‘Wolf359’, which combines theatre, technologies and experiences at their interface. Both are former fellows of the Dortmund Academy for Theatre and Digitality.
Further information about the Speaker can be found on: Michael Rau @ Theater Dortmund /Wolf359.org
This event will be held in English and is part of Intention:Immersion. A joint project of the storyLab kiU, the digital culture of the Dortmunder U and the digital co-production lab.