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Theatre director Katerina Giannopoulou lives in Athens and 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 theater works with cinematic techniques. By working on the fusion of video, music, living bodies and the use of new technologies, she seeks to create rich and multifaceted aesthetic experiences.
Her work has been presented among others at Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Stegi, National Theater of Greece, Athens Biennale, Municipal Theater of Piraeus, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Theater Bremen, Theater Oberhausen and Dimitria Festival Thessaloniki.
She took part in the International Forum of the Theatertreffen 2018 in Berlin. In 2019, as a fellow of the Goethe-Institut, she worked at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg with Christoph Marthaler and René Pollesch. She was a fellow artist of La Biennale des Arts de la Scène en Méditerranée 2023 at Théâtre des 13 vents in Montpellier.
In 2023/2024 she was Ηead of the Experimental Stage of the National Theater of Greece. Her curatorial focus laid on gender related issues, late-stage capitalism related existential crisis and radical aesthetics.
