Acclaimed theater director Marmarinos named head of Athens-Epidaurus Festival

Acclaimed theater manager Michail Marmarinos has been appointed creator manager of the Athens-Epidaurus Festival, Greece’s Culture Ministry said successful a statement connected Monday.

Marmarinos, 69, will regenerate theater manager Katerina Evangelatos, who is stepping down astatine the extremity of August aft six years successful the post.

Culture Minister Lina Mendoni thanked Evangelatos for her work and praised her successor.

“Michail Marmarinos needs nary instauration oregon credentials. For 4 decades, helium has served the arts with dedication and ever-renewed inspiration,” Mendoni said.

She described Marmarinos arsenic “a profound connoisseur of stagecraft” successful changeless dialog with planetary trends, who has delivered productions of the highest caliber, leaving a chiseled idiosyncratic imprint connected Greece’s creator scene.

Mendoni besides praised his enactment arsenic wide creator manager of Elefsina European Capital of Culture 2023.

“He possesses each the indispensable qualifications for a fruitful tenure successful the peculiarly demanding relation helium is present assuming, contributing to the festival’s further planetary outreach, its opening to broader audiences, and its engagement with pioneering movements,” she said.

Born successful Athens successful 1955, Marmarinos studied neurobiology, theater, and stage directing.

In the aboriginal 1980s, helium founded the nationally and internationally acclaimed theater institution Diplous Eros, aboriginal renamed Theseum Ensemble. Over three decades, helium created galore productions staged astatine venues including the National Theater of Greece, the National Theater of Northern Greece, Onassis Stegi, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), and the Athens and Epidaurus Festival.

His work has besides been presented internationally astatine venues such arsenic Volksbuhne successful Berlin, Tumanishvili Theater successful Tbilisi, Wroclawski Teatr Wspolczesny successful Wroclaw, and Comedie-Francaise successful Paris.

Marmarinos has directed oregon been invited to festivals successful Austria, Belgium, China, France, Georgia, Germany, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, and Venezuela. He has besides acted successful galore theater productions and films, and collaborated internationally with Albrecht Hirche, Heiner Goebbels, Rimini Protokoll, VeenFabriek and Paul Koek successful the Netherlands, and with Japan’s Noh theater radical NOH – Nekia arsenic portion of the Epidaurus Festival. [Combined reports]