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Theatre director Katerina Giannopoulou is a graduate of the Athens Conservatoire Drama School. Her artistic work is focused on dealing with crucial socio-political, ecological and gender related issues. She aims to explore the limits of stage possibilities, often combining her theatre works with cinematic techniques.
She has directed: “Generation Lost” by Greg Liakopoulos (2024, New Stage of the National Theater of Greece); “The Just Assassins” by Albert Camus (2023, Municipal Theatre of Piraeus); “Paradise”, a new adaptation of Thomas Köck’s Climate Trilogy (2021, Onassis Stegi);
“In a Year of 13 Moons”, based on the film by R.W. Fassbinder, Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2021;
“The Ridiculous Darkness” by Wolfram Lotz, (2017, Experimental Stage of the National Theater of Greece, Theater Bremen, Germany and Dimitria Festival Thessaloniki, Greece);
“The Plague” by Greg Liakopoulos (2016, Experimental Stage of the National Theater of Greece and Athens Biennale);
“Holy Beat”, adapted from Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” (2016, Bios Theater, Athens);
and Georg Büchner’s “Woyzeck” (2015, Bios Theater, Athens).
In 2018 she took part in the International Forum of the Theatertreffen in Berlin. In 2019, as a fellow of the Goethe-Institut, she worked at the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg with Christoph Marthaler and René Pollesch.
In 2023/2024 she was Ηead of the Experimental Stage of the National Theater of Greece.
