Constantine Kyriakou
Konstantinos Kyriakou is an actor, director, playwright, and translator. He also holds a PhD in Theater Studies from the Department of Theater Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, having received his Master’s degree from the same department with honors. He studied Theater, Greek Culture (with honors and as valedictorian), Expressive Communication, and speaks five languages (English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian). In 2020, together with Katerina Bilali, they founded the THEARTES Theater Company, while in the same year he served as Artistic Director of the Piraeus Municipal Theater Festival “The Dynamics of Greek Language in Theater.” To date, as a director, he has directed over thirty theatrical performances, theatrical events, and online documentaries, having collaborated with the Municipal Theater of Piraeus, the Municipal Regional Theaters of Agrinio, Volos, and Serres, as well as with private theater companies. As an actor, he has performed in approximately forty theatrical productions, collaborating with the National Theater, the Municipal Regional Theaters of Agrinio, Kalamata, Crete, and Serres, and with several independent theater companies. He has written ten plays, two of which have won awards in playwriting competitions and four of which have been performed. He has also adapted works by other authors, which have been performed on various theater stages. Finally, he has translated over fifty plays, some of them for the first time into Greek. More than forty of his translations have been published (by Alfios, Dromon, Dodoni, Iridanos, Nikas, and Sokoli) and twenty have been performed in various theaters in Greece and Cyprus. Two of his published translations were subsidized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.