ABSTRACT
Director, scenographer, visual artist, and architect Robert Wilson ranks among the most significant theatre artists of the past 50 years. His opera, Einstein on the Beach, created with composer Philip Glass, is considered a landmark of twentieth-century performance. He has continuously worked across various media and genres but is best known as a theatre artist and is usually referred to as a director, but his medium is space and light. Wilson is known for his surgically precise lighting and his formalist, minimalist, and geometric designs and, while he works with other designers, he is usually credited as the sole designer or co-designer of sets, lights, and costumes for all his productions.
