THE CAST Ioanna Katsarou, Theater Teacher/Director Ioanna Katsarou is an actor, director, writer and theater educator. She has studied theater at the National Theater of N. Greece, computer studies at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki and music studies at the Municipal Conservatoire of Thessaloniki. She is a founding member of the Eclipses Group Theater NY (www.egtny. com) and a founding member of Aktis Aeliou Art Theater, honored as “The Best Regional Theater in Greece” by the Greek Critics Association for the year 2006 and nominated for the same award in 2003. She participated at Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, 2017. She has worked as an actor with the National Theater of N. Greece (Athens Festival, Herodion Atticon), La MaMa E.T.C., Classic Stage Company/Ashes Company, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Greek Cultural Center NY, New Theater Thessalonikis, Aktis Aeliou Theater, Eclipses Group Theater NY and others. Some of her leading roles were: Clytemnestra at the Classic Stage Company (off-Broadway), Cassandra at the Ellen Stewart stage of La MaMa (off- Broadway), Queen Atossa at La MaMa, G.C.C of NY and St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival, Phaedra at the international Delphi Festival for Ancient Greek Drama, Catherine in Suddenly Last Summer, Medea in Medea’s Trilogy by Heiner Muller, and many more (Aktis Aeliou theater). She recently directed the plays In Chorus and Andromache at the Greek Play Project NY at NYU. With Eclipses Group Theater NY she has directed the plays Raus! Get outta Here! (Stathakeio center and National Hellenic Museum in Chicago), Proposal by Anton Chekhov (Hellenic Cultural Center), The Princess Goes to War by Ioanna Katsarou (Hellenic Cultural Center), I Can’t pay? I Won’t Pay! by Dario Fo (co-director, Hellenic Cultural Center). At the Greek Cultural Center in NY she has directed the plays: Mommy, Mother, Mom by Giorgos Dialegmenos, and Babies Are Brought by the Stork and In-Laws from Tirana by M.Reppas-T. Papathanasiou . She directed the play Farewell by Yannis Ritsos that will be presented this Fall at the Solo festival in Manhattan. She has directed at the Aktis Aeliou theater the play Autobiography- In the opposite direction by Thomas Bernhard, as well as plays by Brecht, Peter Weiss, T. Williams, Fassbinder, Chekhov and Lorca. She teaches Greek Theater at the Academy of Hellenic Paideia.
GEORGE ARVANITAKIS George Arvanitakis came in New York one year and a half ago. He studied in Culinary School in Greece and he has been working as a cook in Greece and in New York. In Greece he worked as a cook in five stars hotels and gourmet restaurants. In New York he worked at the Nisi restaurant in Manhattan. His hobbies are playing basketball , beach volley, swimming, playing water sports. He likes watching theater and movies and he enjoys listening to music. NIKOLAOS BASOUKOS Nikolaos Basoukos was born in Ilion, Attica. At the age of 22 he immigrated to New York, USA, where he graduated with a degree in finance. During the last 15 years he has worked in various business sectors, but in the last three years he decided to work in the agricultural sector. During that period he finished Beekeeping seminars at the Agricultural institute of Athens and and he also became an olive oil sommelier in the and International Culinary Center. During this year he decided to deal with theatrical acting.
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