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Artistic Director

YANNIS HOUVARDAS
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL THEATRE OF GREECE}

Graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1975). Directorial apprenticeship at the Wűrtemberg State Theatre (1980).
Actor at: The Open Space Theatre, London (1975), Karolos Koun Art Theatre, Athens (1975-77), Theatriki Syntechnia, Athens (1997-1980).
Joint founder, director and actor of Theatriki Syntechnia  (1977-1980). Tours to a number of festivals in Greece and abroad.
Freelance director: From 1977 to 1990 Yannis Houvardas collaborates with national and state theatres in Greece and abroad, directing more than 80 plays by –among others–  Euripides, Sophocles, Herodas, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Tirso de Molina, Webster, Fernando de Rojas, Moliere, Racine, Kleist, Goethe, Lessing, Strindberg, Ibsen, Chekhov, Horvat, Wedekind, Brecht, Genet, Williams, Zola, Sternheim, Kawabata, Coward, Fosse. These productions were staged at theatres such as the National Theatre of Greece, the State Theatre of Northern Greece, the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden, the National Theatre of Norway, the Norwegian Theatre of Oslo, the State Theatre of Trondheim (Norway), the Municipal Theatre of Stockholm, the State Theatre of Wiesbaden, the Lilla Teatern (Helsinki), and the Tribune Theatre (Stuttgart). Since 1999, he has been directing operas, working among others at the Gothengurg Opera and the Royal Opera of Copenhagen.
Founder and Artistic Director of Notos Theatre Company, a company dedicated to producing new work and pursuing international theatrical collaborations (1991-2007).
Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Greece since 2007.

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