Actor Keith McDermott on Robert Wilson’s Legacy and Ghostwriting His Memoir: “I Saw a Robert Wilson Play and It Changed My Life”

Vanity Fair: Over the more than 50-year period of his career, Wilson was arguably the most produced American theater director in Europe, if not the world. His aesthetic style has permeated European theater and opera culture to the extent that few directors have remained uninfluenced by what is commonly referred to as the “Wilsonian” use of lighting, set design, and performance style. However, he is not well-known in his own country.