Regisseur, Theaterleiter, Schauspieler
Born in Athens.
He studied biology (major: Neurobiology), acting and theatre.
In 1983-4, he founded the «diplous Eros theatre ensemble» in Athens, renamed to “Theseum Ensemble” (TE) in 2003. Since 1997, TE possesses a space in the Athens historical city centre, «theseum-A THEATRE FOR THE ARTS», an old warehouse that has been transformed into an international centre for the presentation of the Arts, which is being offered for international collaborations and presentations of groups and solo artists from Europe and elsewhere.
Two persisting beliefs run through his work:
a) Theatre is the art on the humble history of the people.
b) There is no moment in every day life that isn’t theatre, once the right gaze is there.
The last years in his directing he is obviously preoccupied by three matters:
Ι. He has always been attracted by gatherings. This tension of the people towards gatherings... He begun to work on the concept of Chorus in the ancient Greek drama, as an ancient structure that produces contemporary forms within the theatre and every-day life, a structure with excellent qualities,a structure capable of producing theatre, text, chaos, history, politics. A structure/ device of the contemporary gaze. Speeches, conferences, workshops, and teachings on Chorus as a concept and structure of the real life, of modern and classical drama :Athens, Delfi, Berlin, Salonica, Los Angeles, Montreal.
ΙΙ. In which ways a certain personality – the body of a citizen posessing the quality of an actor – can push himself to the point of getting trapped within reality, within the Accidental– as a method of acting identity - thus turning himself into a «document».
Biology and his meeting with A.Lowen and Bioenergetics Analysis in 1990, have played a major part in this.
Workshops on Bioenergetics as a method of acting education, and also participation in international congresses of the International Institute of Bioenergetics Analysis: many times in Athens, Leipsig, Caracas, Copenhagen, Salonica, Firenze.
ΙΙΙ. Finally, the ways and moments of every-day life, the insignificant and coincidental moments that can «poison» theatre, pushing it violently towards poetry and documentary.
This kind of writing tactics, capable of producing a text, is what he usually names «DIRECTING AS PLAYWRITING»
Remarkable moments:
● Euripides: MEDEA ( three versions) 1990,1992,1993:Athens, Argos, Patras, Amverse.
● Yiorgos Veltsos: CAMERA DEGLI SPOSI – a greek play 1994: Athens.
● ULYSSES - KAFKA :THE TRANSFORMATIONS – an installation,1996: Ancient theatre of Argos.
● Sophocles: ELECTRA 1998: Epidaurus, Salonica, Dion, Fillipae.
● Aeschylus : AGAMEMNON 2000: Athens, Caracas, Zurich, Tbilisi.
● Heiner Müller DIE HAMLETMASCHINE (two versions) 1988, 1993: Athens, State Theatre of Northern Greece.
● W. Shakespeare: HAMLET – THE SNAKE’S BITE 1998, Athens, BITEF- Belgrade.
● Heiner Müller MEDEAMATERIAL (two versions) 1992, 2000: Athens, Tbilisi, Moscow.
● SACRED SONGS (a short opera) 2000: Athens: the Megaron.
● ROMANTISM, A presentation by Michail Marmarinos-«DIRECTING AS PLAYWRITING» 1997: Athens.
● Heiner Müller ZEMENT (international workshop) 2001: Berlin.
● NATIONAL HYMN, A presentation by Michail Marmarinos-«DIRECTING AS PLAYWRITING» (three versions internationally):Greece 2002: Corfu, Athens, Salonica, Zurich.Italy 2003: Firenze. Georgia 2003: Tbilisi.
(Award of Critics: Best performance – best direction of the year 2002)
● W.Shakespeare ROMEO + JULIET – THE THIRD MEMORY 2003,2004: Firenze, Athens.
As an actor:
He has taken part in most of the diplous Eros theatre company presentations, and has played major parts under the direction of Roula Pateraki, Yannis Houvardas, Antonis Antipas, Ploutarhos Kaitatzis, Spiros Evangelatos, and others, in plays by Koltes, Euripides, Daggermann etc.
Also in films by L. Papastathis, Y. Corras, T. Spetsiotis, N. Triandafillidis, S. Theodoraki, C. Aristopoulos.
He has been invited address or direct workshops to a large number of symposiums, congresses and festivals in Greece, Belgium, Holland, Georgia, Germany, Venezuela, Switzerland, Denmark, Russia, Spain, Yugoslavia, Canada, U.S.A., Italy, Egypt etc.