Actor, director. Studied English literature, graduated from the K. Michailidis Drama School and attended the Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna for two years. He first appears in the theatre in 1973 in Sunday walk, directed by Yorgos Michailidis. This was followed by collaborations with the “Amphitheatre” of Spyros Evangelatos and with “Free Stage” (Eleftheri Skini), as well as with Ellie Lambeti in Children of a lesser god. During those years he played roles from a mainly classic repertory. In 1981 he founded “THE SCENE” theatre company with another six actors: Dimitris Kataleifos, Anna Kokkinou, Tassos Bantis, Rania Oikonomidou, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Smaragda Smyrneou. From 1982 to 1987 he directed and performed in Heinrich von Kleist’s The broken jug (co-directed with V. Papavassiliou), Carlo Goldoni’s The Boors, Alexander Griboyedov’s Woe from Wit and Giorgos Dialegmenos’s I kiss your face, which earned him the Karolos Koun Directing Award for 1986-1987. In 1988 he founded “THE new SCENE”, whose repertory spanned classic, new-edge and modern-Greek plays. In 1989 he founded the Ancient Drama Lab which marks his engagement with Greek drama, starting with Sophocles’ Antigone at the Theatre Odou Kykladon and going on to the Cretan Renaissance comedy Katsourbos of Georgios Chortatsis, Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya and Thomas Bernhard’s Ritter, Dene, Voss. In 1995 he produced With power from Kifissia, the satirical comedy of Dimitris Kechaidis and Eleni Chaviara, followed by Moliere’s Misanthrope in which he played Alceste. In 1996 he played in Euripides’ Helen, directed by Yannis Houvardas in Epidaurus. His 1998 production of Dialegmenos’s The night of the owl earned him the Fotos Politis and Karolos Koun Directing Awards. In 1999 he directed Aeschylus’ Persians for the National Theatre of Greece in Epidaurus. In 2000 he directed and performed in Harold Pinter’s Ashes to Ashes. In 2001 he produced Sarah Kane’s Cleansed, introducing the playwright in Greece. In 2003 he presented Loula Anagnostaki’s To You who are listening to me and Sarah Kane’s Crave. In 2004 another Moliere, School for wives. In 2005 he directed Dialegmenos’s Bella Venezia, again receiving the Karolos Koun Directing Award. In 2006 he presented the new version of Sophocles’ Antigone in Epidaurus as part of the Athens Festival. In 2007 he produced and performed in Dostoyevski’s A gentle creature. In 2009 he directed and performed in Howard Barker’s The dying of today. In 2010 he directed Dimitris Dimitriadis’s Interest for the Athens Festival. In 2011 he directed and performed in Harold Pinter’s Greenhouse. He has played in many films by Greek directors. In ANALOGIO he took part in the 2007 Tribute to Dimitris Kechaidis with the latter’s unfinished play Iloveyouallthetime.