Katerina Giannopoulou

Katerina Giannopoulou was born in Athens in 1987, and is a graduate of the Athens Conservatoire Drama School. In the summer of 2021, she directed the production “In a Year with 13 Moons” – based on the Rainer Werner Fassbinder film of the same title – to be presented at the Athens Epidaurus Festival. The work is set to premiere in September 2021.

In March 2017, she directed “The Ridiculous Darkness” by Wolfram Lotz, presented on the Experimental Stage of the National Theater of Greece. The play went on to be presented at the Dimitria Festival in Thessaloniki, and the New Greek Wave Festival in Bremen, Germany. She has also directed the works “The Plague” by Greg Liakopoulos, presented as part of the National Theater of Greece’s Experimental Stage New Creators’ Platform (March 2016) and at the Athens Biennale; “Holy Beat”, adapted from Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”, at Bios (2016); and Georg Büchner’s “Woyzeck”, again at Bios (2014–2015).

In 2018, she took part in the International Forum – Theatertreffen in Berlin as a fellow of the Goethe-Institut Athen. In 2019, she worked at the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg with the directors Christoph Marthaler and René Pollesch, again as a fellow of the Goethe-Institut Athen.