Adonis Milan is a theater director, audiovisual creator, and actor. He has been a member, in the roles of actor and assistant director indistinctly, in theater groups such as Hubert de Blanck, Integración, Gaia Teatro, Teatro Pálpito and Vivarta Theater Studio. He was a disciple of Berta Martínez, emeritus teacher of Cuban theater. He has taken courses at the University of the Arts (ISA) in theater directing and theater criticism. He has attended courses and workshops on acting, stage direction, playwriting, theater criticism, cinema, literature and art history. He has published articles on art, politics, and society in digital newspapers.
In 2015, he founded the independent project Perséfone Teatro in which he has directed several shows. First, Perséfone's Journey (2017), a street performance based on Greek myth and inserting texts by William Shakespeare and Federico García Lorca. Then he premiered The Tree of Cats (2016), a work written by Elaine Vilar Madruga that touches on issues such as emigration and Cuban identity. This work participated in the Festival of the Arts. Later he premiered Al filo del mar (2017), a work that takes as a reference the figures of Alfonsina Storni and Frida Kahlo, he was invited with this show against homophobia in El Mejunje de Santa Clara. For the two years at Perséfone Teatro he directed a performance called Invocations that gathers the aesthetics and the referents of the group. Its premiere Machine Hamlet by Heiner Müller, was controversial in Cuban theater institutions. He created a work-in-progress of Sarah Kane’s Psychosis, participating in an Art Festival in Colombia. In 2018 he was invited to Argentina and Uruguay to give talks and conferences on freedom of cultural expression in Cuba.
He has directed a series of short films based on the Anthology of Spoon River poems by Edgar Lee Masters. In 2020 he premiered the play Misery Rose, a gay cabaret that tells the stories of a group of marginalized homosexuals. He recently premiered two solo works, the first entitled Leaves of Grass about the American poet Walt Whitman, and the second was a biographical show about the life and work of the American playwright Tennessee Williams called Tom.