Milo Rau
Milo Rau is a Swiss theatre and film director, journalist, essayist and lecturer. Rau studied sociology, German and Romance studies in Paris, Zurich and Berlin under Tzvetan Todorov and Pierre Bourdieu, among others. In 2007, Rau founded the theatre and film production company International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM), which quickly attained international acclaim for its unique, dense documentary form of political theatre and special focus on multimedia adaptations of historical or social conflicts. Five Easy Pieces was created in response to a request from the Belgian arts centre CAMPO, and marks Rau’s first time working with children on stage. The production has toured internationally to much critical acclaim.
 
His IIPM productions, campaigns and films (Montana, The Last Days of the Ceausescus, Hate Radio, City of Change, The Moscow Trials, The Zurich Trials, The Civil Wars, The Dark Ages) have been invited to major national and international festivals, including the Festival d’Avignon, the Berliner Theatertreffen, and the Kunstenfestival Brussels. The Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique recently named Rau one of Europe’s “most sought-after directors”. The German weekly Der Freitag described him as “the most controversial theatre director of his generation”. As well as receiving the first Swiss Theatre Award (2014) and the prestigious Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden (for Hate Radio), Rau was awarded the Jury Prize at the Festival Politik im Freien Theater (for The Civil Wars), and the Special Prize at the German Film Festival (for The Moscow Trials).