Konstantinos Kounellas

A graduate of the Drama School of the Athens Conservatoire and of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Since 2011, he has collaborated as an actor with Dimitris Ayiopetritis-Bogdanos, Konstantinos Rigos, Angelos Mentis, Vassilis Andreou, Thomas Moschopoulos, Yannis Kakleas, among others, in productions of the Athens Epidaurus Festival (2011, 2014), National Theatre of Greece, Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, Neos Kosmos Theatre, etc. He has worked as an assistant director in the productions Leonce and Lena by Kornilios Selamsis, (dir. Argyris Xafis, Athens Festival, 2016), Orpheus & Eurydice, Dance Lesson, Daphnis + Chloe (dir. Dimitris Ayiopetritis-Bogdanos, 2017/18 and Athens Epidaurus Festival, 2019). In 2015, together with Christina Garbi and Vasilis Safos, he founded the theatre group t r i s, in which he participates as a director and actor. The group has presented the works The Soldier’s Tale, Michael Kolhaas and Zemphyra or The Mystery of Pasiphae (Athens Epidaurus Festival, 2018).