Acclaimed actor and director Willem Dafoe talks about his career and craft during an interview and Q&A with students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on May 21, 2022. The arts \u201chumanize us,\u201d Dafoe says. \u201cThey allow us a way to think about how the world can be better. When we watch films, we learn how to live from them. Generally, the arts force us to reconsider ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dafoe studied theater at 51ÁÔÆæ for two years in the 1970s before leaving to become part of Theatre X, a faculty-student workshop that grew into an independent experimental theater company. Some of his first acting work came on 51ÁÔÆæ stages, where he appeared in Jean Racine\u2019s \u201cPhaedra\u201d and Eugene O\u2019Neill\u2019s \u201cA Moon for the Misbegotten.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Acclaimed actor and director Willem Dafoe talks about his career and craft during an interview and Q&A with students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on May 21, 2022. The arts \u201chumanize us,\u201d Dafoe says. \u201cThey allow us a way to think about how the world can be better. When we watch films, we learn how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":107538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-107537","uwmnewsvideo","type-uwmnewsvideo","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n