Born in 1941 on October 4 in Wake, Texas, Robert Wilson is one of the world's leading theater and visual arts creators. His stage productions unconventionally combine various artistic mediums, including dance, movement, lighting, sculpture, music and text. His work is aesthetically impressive, and his performances have been acclaimed by audiences and critics around the world. Educated at the University of Texas and Brooklyn's Pratt Institute, the 20th century In the mid-1950s, Wilson founded the New York-based performance group "The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds" and created the first most striking original works, including "The Deaf Mute's Look", "A Letter to Queen Victoria" and the opera "Einstein on the Beach", which he wrote with Philip Glass. . Wilson's artistic collaborators include many writers and musicians, including: Heiner Müller, Tom Waits, Susan Sontag, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Lou Reed, Jessye Norman and Anna Calvi. Wilson is the founder and artistic director of the Watermill Center, an arts laboratory in New York City.