Mario Banushi

Mario Banushi is a director and performer. He was born in 1998 and lived in Albania until the age of six, before moving permanently to Greece. He studied acting at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory. He graduated in 2020 and made his first short film “PRANVERA”, which participated in the 2021 TIFF Film Festival. In 2017, he worked as an assistant to Euripides Laskaridis in the performance THIRIO, which took part in the Athens Biennale. He has been active in the field of performing arts since graduating in 2020, and his most recent collaboration was the work "Marcel Duchamp" (2022) with Nova Melancholia. His first work as a director was the performance “RAGADA”, a part of which he presented at Gerasimos Kappatos’s ROOMS2022 Festival, before it opened at the Sala theater. His next work was "GOODBYE LINDITA", which was presented at the experimental stage of the National Theatre, while his third work, "TAVERNA MIRESIA MARIO BELLA ANASTASIA", the final part of the trilogy, was presented in July 2023 at the Athens and Epidaurus Festival.

Mario Banushi is an Onassis AiR Fellow for 2023-24 through the Dramaturgy Fellowship.