Artistic Director

Dimitris Komninos was born in New York in 1963. He studied Theatre Directing (Bachelor of Fine Arts) at Emerson College in Boston and lives in Athens, where he works as a theatre director and translator. He has translated Summer and Smoke and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, which were presented at the National Theatre of Northern Greece and the Municipal Theatre of Larissa respectively, both directed by Andreas Voutsinas, with whom he collaborated as an assistant director from 1997 to 2004. As a director, his work includes Third and Oak: The Laundromat by Marsha Norman at Epikolonō Theatre, The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco at Epikolonō Theatre, the National Theatre of Northern Greece and Victoria Theatre, Spirtokouto by Yannis Oikonomidis at Victoria Theatre, and Logo Fatsas by Giorgos Dialegmenos at the Municipal Theatre of Larissa. He has also directed The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard, Fucking Games by Grae Cleugh and FiT by Nicky Silver. Additional works include Amen by Alkyoni Valsari at Vault Theatre, The Lesson by Eugène Ionesco at Bios, and Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore, also at Bios. He is a certified Meisner Technique teacher (Meisner Institute, Los Angeles) and taught acting at the Athens Drama School “G. Theodosiadis” from 2014 to 2023. He is a member of the Hellenic Directors Guild, the Hellenic Playwrights Society and the Hellenic Centre of the International Theatre Institute. In 2004, he founded the theatre group 90°C. He served as Director of Victoria Theatre from 2006 to 2015 and is currently the Artistic Director of ODYSSEIA CULTURAL PROJECT.