EE103: Social Practice - Peter Sellars, Director

Speaker Biography:

PETER SELLARS is an American theatre director and professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. He is celebrated for his contemporary stagings of classical operas and plays. Recipient of a McArthur Fellowship, Sellars has worked as Director of the American National Theatre in Washington, D.C., and has staged operas including Handel’s Giulio Cesare, and Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte. In 2005, he received the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. Recently, Sellars directed a production of John Adams’ Nixon in China at the New York Metropolitan Opera.