Vasia Attarian and Mirto Makridi

Vasia Attarian and Mirto Makridi are two of the three members of the theater group NTOUTH (Vasia Attarian, Mirto Makridi, Dimitris Tasainas). They have been collaborating for twelve years and have co-directed over ten performances. Their recent creative work with NTOUTH includes the first two parts of a performance trilogy on grief (“Nostalgia Generation” in 2023 and “Farewell” in 2024), “The Visitors I – Parallel Writings” (2022) at the Archaeological Museum of Eretria, as part of the “All of Greece, One Culture” Program, “The Visitors II – Heat Days, Tropical Nights” (2023) at the Ancient Theater of Argos, as part of the “All of Greece, One Culture” Program, “The Visitors III – Touristic Polaroids” (2023) at Venizelos House, Chania, as part of the cultural program “Open Sales”, and “A Thousand and One Tales” (2019) at the National Theater. NTOUTH were the artistic directors of the children’s stage at Skrow Theater for three years (2014-2017), leading to the creation of the plays “The Dream Eater” (2014), “The Missing Piece (2016), and “The Nonexistent Knight” (2017). They have also been teaching theater to teenagers and produced performances with them at the Onassis Youth Festival (2018, 2019), and at the National Theater Workshops (2020, 2023, 2024).

Mirto Makridi was born in Athens in 1985. She graduated from Empros Drama School in 2009. She has performed as an actress in theater, television, and cinema, and worked in television productions from 2005 to 2016.

Vasia Attarian was born in Athens in 1989. She graduated from the Department of Theater Studies at the University of Athens and is finishing a Master’s degree in cultural management at the Hellenic Open University. She worked for seven years as an assistant director for the BLITZ theater group. Alongside with Seraphim Radis (Lefou Productions), she has been the executive producer of theater, dance, and music performances. She has also been the lighting designer for the recent performances of Vasilis Vilaras. In cinema, she served as a production coordinator at Homemade Films, managed by Maria Drandaki, in films such as “The City and the City” (dir. Christos Passalis and Syllas Tzoumerkas), “Animal” (dir. Sofia Exarchou), and “To a Land Unknown” (dir. Mahdi Fleifel), among others. She co-authored the script for Syllas Tzoumerkas’ new film, “My Soul Startled”, which is currently in the final financing stage.

Vasia Attarian and Mirto Makridi are Onassis AiR Fellows for 2024/25 through the Dramaturgy Fellowship.