Kalliopi Simou
Actress
She is graduate with honours from the Drama School of the National Theatre of Northern Greece (2006) and from the Τheatre Department of the School of Fine Arts (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2012). As an actress with a clear orientation towards physical theatre, she has collaborated with the choreographers Marianna Kavallieratos,
Konstantinos Rigos, as well as with Dimitris Papaioannou, with whom she has been working since 2009 (Nowhere, Inside, Still Life, The Great Tamer, Ink). In theatre she has collaborated with the stage directors Robert Wilson, Stathis Livathinos, Thomas Moschopoulos, Thanos Papakonstantinou, Yannis Iordanidis, Katerina Evangelatos,
Prodromos Tsinikoris, Sophia Marathaki, Euripides Laskaridis, Damianos Konstantinidis, Argyro Chioti, Eleni Efthymiou, Sophia Vgenopoulou, etc. As a movement designer she has collaborated with Thanassis Sarantos (A Dream on the Wave), Maria Katsandri (When the Wolf is Not Here, Gorgons) and Mina Adamaki (The Lover). She also designed the
choreography and performed the work Window, in collaboration with the visual artist Matina Megla, while in 2018 she presented her first theatrical stage direction based on E. A. Poe’s short story The Cask of Amontillado. // Last update of the biography: October 2022.