Milo Rau

Milo Rau, born in Bern in 1977, proclaimed the Free Republic of Vienna in his capacity as artistic director of the 2024 Vienna Festival. As a director and writer, Rau has produced over 100 plays, films, books and performance pieces. Many of his works play with the concept of authenticity, interweaving documentary material with personal perspectives, and the political with the private (La Reprise, Lamm Gottes, Familie, Der Prozess Pelicot). Rau’s theatre productions have been staged at all major international festivals, including the Berliner Theatertreffen, the Festival d’Avignon, the Venice Biennale and the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, and have toured in over 30 countries worldwide. At the Vienna Festival, his plays included Orest in Mosul (2019), Antigone in the Amazon (2023) and Medea’s Children (2024). From 2018 to 2024, Milo Rau was artistic director of NTGent (Belgium). In addition to his work for stage and film, Rau lectures on directing, cultural theory and social sculpture at universities and art colleges.