Milo Rau, Theater & Film Residency
Date and Time
Theater, Dance & Media is excited to welcome renowned theater and film artist Milo Rau to campus for a three-day theater and film residency, curated by TDM Senior Lecturer Tania Bruguera.
Arts Bites events prioritize Harvard undergraduate in registration, and a separate RSVP is required. Please RSVP via the OFA Arts Bites registration form if interested.
Residency Schedule
Perspectives on Performance with Milo Rau
Mon., March 30, 6:30pm-8pm
Farkas Hall, Rm 203 (12 Holyoke St.)
A TDM, lecture-based series that invites prominent artists and academics working at the edges of their disciplines to speak about their work in and on interdisciplinary performance.
Emerging Ideas on Art and Society: Milo Rau
Tues., March 31, 6:30pm-8pm
485 Broadway Hall, Rm 113
A Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA) "salon" wherein an artist, a thinker, or a critic is invited to share their doubts, questions, incomplete thoughts, and challenges about what art and society are today in an informal but intense dinner conversation. Capacity is limited!
ArtsBites, in partnership with the Office for the Arts
Wed., April 1, 12pm-1pm
OFA Common Room (74 Mt. Auburn St.)
An OFA round-table, lunchtime discussion series with undergraduate students and visiting artists. Discover and explore how you can create an expressive career and a performative life. Harvard undergraduate students are given priority in registration, and a separate RSVP is required. Capacity is limited!
The New Gospel: Film Screening and Q&A Session, in Partnership with Art, Film & Visual Studies
Wed., April 1, 7pm-10pm
Carpenter Center (24 Quincy St.)
Join TDM and AFVS for a screening of The New Gospel (2020), a hybrid docudrama directed by Milo Rau exploring and reimagining the life and death of Jesus Christ through contemporary world challenges of the refugee crisis in Europe and the worldwide Black Lives Matter movement. Q&A to follow.
About Milo Rau
Milo Rau, born 1977 in Bern, is the artistic director of the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna. Critics call him the “most influential” (Die Zeit), “most interesting” (De Standaard), “most controversial” (La Repubblica), “most scandalous” (New York Times) or “most ambitious” (The Guardian) artist of our time. The director and author, who is known for his work at the interface of art and activism, has published over 50 plays, films, books and actions. His theatre productions have been shown at all major international festivals, including the Berlin Theatertreffen, the Festival d’Avignon, the Venice Biennale, the Vienna Festival and the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, and have been touring in over 30 countries worldwide. From 2018 to 2024 Milo Rau was Artistic Director of NTGent (Belgium). Milo Rau has received many awards, including the 3sat Prize 2017, the Saarbrücken Poetics Lectureship for Drama 2017 and, as the youngest artist after Frank Castorf and Pina Bausch, the renowned ITI Prize of the World Theatre Day in 2016. In 2017, Milo Rau was voted Director of the Year in a survey conducted by Deutsche Bühne, in 2018, he received the European Theater Prize for his work and in 2019 he was the first artist ever to be appointed Associated Artist of the European Association of Theatre and Performance – EASTAP. In 2020 he received the renowned Münster Poetry Lectureship for his complete artistic oeuvre. His plays were voted “Best of the Year” in critics’ surveys in over 10 countries. In 2019 he received an honorary doctorate from Lund University in Sweden, in 2020 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Ghent University. A star honours him on the ‘Sibiu Walk of Fame’ (2023) and the Bitef Festival honoured him with the Politika Award for Best Director in 2024.
This residency is presented in collaboration with the Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Art, Film & Visual Studies Department; and supported by the Johnson-Kulukundis Family President's Fund for Arts at Harvard University and the Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities