Peter Sellars
Peter Sellars was born on Sep 27, 1957 in USA. Peter Sellars's big-screen debut came with King Lear directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1987.
Peter Sellars is an opera, film, theater, and festival director who has gained international renown for his groundbreaking and transformative interpretations of classics, advocacy of 20th-century and contemporary music, and collaborative projects with an extraordinary range of creative artists. His work illuminates art's power as a means of moral expression and social action. Sellars has led major arts festivals in Los Angeles, Adelaide and Vienna. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and Director of the Boethius Initiative at UCLA, and a resident curator of the Telluride Film Festival. His many awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, the Erasmus Prize, the Gish Prize, and the Polar Music Prize. Sellars conceived and directed "this body is so impermanent..." in response to the global pandemic.
Birthday
Sep 27, 1957Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Movies & TV Shows
- 1991
director, writer
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