THEMELIS GLYNATSIS

Born in Athens, he studied comparative literature, ancient and contemporary theatre in the UK and completed his PhD at the University of London. He has directed works by Heiner Müller, Stéphane Mallarmé, Sophocles, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Claudine Galea, among others. He directed the work Y los peces salieron a combatir contra los hombres by Angélica Liddell (Athens Epidaurus Festival), Cendrillon by Pauline Viardot, Romanticism (Onassis Stegi), Bérénice by Racine (Athens Epidaurus Festival), Schubert’s Winterreise (Art Theatre, Athens), Salome by Oscar Wilde (Cyclades Street Theatre), Handel’s Alcina and Koumendakis’ 57 // a passion play, Weisse Rose at Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera, where he served as Deputy Chair of the Board of Directors (2018-2020). Moreover, he has directed the music performance Splendidissima Gemma: Recomposing Hildegard (Athens Concert Hall), Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht, Act I of Wagner’s Die Walküre (Ancient Theatre of Megalopolis), This is Britten (Lyric South Festival) as well as Calliope Tsoupaki’s Capodistrias: Monodrama of a secret life (GNO Alternative Stage).