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Willem Dafoe Named Artistic Director of Venice Biennale Theater Department
Willem Dafoe has been appointed the artistic director of the Venice Biennale theater department for 2025 and 2026.
Its previous directors include Renato Simoni, Luca Ronconi, Franco Quadri, Carmelo Bene and Lluís Pasqual, and it is programmed yearly alongside major cultural events like the Venice Film Festival. I can’t wait, like everyone else, to be a spectator at the festival he will build as artistic director and – from his lectern as an absolute maestro – to watch the young men and women of the Theatre College grow in their art.” Added Dafoe, “I was first surprised then happy to receive Pietrangelo Buttafuoco’s invitation to be the director of the International Theatre Festival of La Biennale di Venezia 2025-2026.
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