Willem Dafoe is best known from films. But he actually comes from the theater. Now he is the director of the important theater festival in Venice.
Hollywood star Willem Dafoe will be the new artistic director of the Venice Theater Biennale. The 68-year-old will hold the position in 2025 and 2026, the festival’s press office announced. Dafoe, who is known for films such as “Poor Things” and “Spider-Man,” started his career in the theater.
Dafoe was quoted as saying that he was surprised and then happy to have been asked. “I realize that I am known as a film actor, but I was born in the theater, the theater trained me and gave me momentum. I am a stage animal. I am an actor. The theater taught me about art and life.”
Dafoe is said to have been acting in theater since he was a child. He also began studying theater at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, which he later dropped out of. In 1977 he co-founded the experimental theater group “Wooster Group.”
Source: Stern
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