Michael Marmarinos

Michael Marmarinos was born in Athens and studied neurobiology, theater, and stage directing. In 1983-84, he founded the nationally and internationally acclaimed theater company “Diplous Eros,” which was later renamed “Theseum Ensemble.” Since then and over the course of 30 years, numerous productions were created and performed at the National Theater of Greece in Athens; the National Theater of Northern Greece in Thessaloniki; the Onassis Stegi; the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center; the Athens and Epidaurus Festival; Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; Tumanishvili Teater in Tbilisi, Georgia; Wrocławski Teatr Współczesny in Wroclaw, Poland; and Comédie-Française in Paris, France, among others.

He also worked as a director or was invited to festivals in countries such as Austria, Belgium, China, France, Georgia, Germany, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, and Venezuela. In addition, he has acted in numerous theater productions and films. Michael Marmarinos collaborated in international co-productions with Albrecht Hirche; Heiner Goebbels; Rimini Protokoll; VeenFabriek in the Netherlands; Paul Koek; and, as part of the Epidaurus Festival, the Japanese Noh theater group NOH – Nekia.

He’s a member of the International Heiner Müller Society and the International Bioenergetic Analysis Institute. He was president of the Greek organization of the ITI (International Theater Institute) from 2006 to 2009. He teaches at university departments in Patras and Nafplion and has been an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, since 2006. He was awarded the Mikhail Tumanishvili Prize in Tbilisi, Georgia, and the title of the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture.