Themelis Glynatsis
Director
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 (Cyclades Street Theatre), Weisse Rose at the Greek National Opera, where he served as Vice President 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) as well as Calliope Tsoupaki’s Capodistrias: Monodrama of a secret life (Alternative Stage of the GNO). // Last update of the biography: March 2023.