Konstantinos Markellos is a director, playwright and actor, currently completing his degree in Theatre Studies at the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2017, he was shortlisted for admission to LAMDA’s MA in Directing programme.

As an actor, he has participated in theatre and musical theatre productions at the Athens Festival, the Athens Concert Hall, the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Patras, the Amore Theatre and other theatres.

In 2012, he co-founded This Famous Tiny Circus theater group with Eleni Stergiou and has since served as its director. His productions of his own plays, as well as works of ancient Greek drama and plays by modern Greek and international writers, have been presented at the Aeschylia Festival, the Neos Kosmos Theatre, the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, the Synchrono Theatre, the Kefallinias Street Theatre, the Art Theatre (as part of the Analogio Festival 2017), the Municipal and Regional Theatres of Kozani and Ioannina, the Archaeological Site of Pella, the Ancient Theatre of Gitana and other venues.

His production Karaflobekatsos and Spyridoula, a stage adaptation of two short stories by Lena Kitsopoulou (Stathmos Theatre, 2018), received three Queer Theater Awards: Best Actor in a Male Role (Eleni Stergiou), Best Play (Lena Kitsopoulou) and Best Production (Audience Award).

For her performance in his first play, The Abduction of Tasoula: A Poetic Romance (Stathmos Theatre, 2019), Eleni Stergiou was nominated for the 2020 Melina Mercouri Award. The play was also included by the Directorate of Letters and Arts of the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports in the list of eligible titles for the 2020 State Literary Awards in the Poetry category.

In March 2023, Dennis Kelly’s Orphans was staged at the Gloria Small Theatre in his translation and direction. His new translation of Orphans received the Eurodram European Translation Award in 2023.

His play Two Oranges for Christmas, based on field research in Bucharest and inspired by firsthand accounts of people who witnessed the final days of the Ceaușescu regime, has been translated into Romanian.

He has adapted Ismini Karyotaki’s novel I Was Not a Fugitive and Joseph Roth’s The Hundred Days for the stage, the latter under the title It’s the Small Stories I Care About, Napoleon!. He has also adapted short stories by the Aestheticist writer N. Episkopopoulos into a radio play entitled On the Eclipse of the Defiant World.

He has studied music and plays string instruments (guitar and bass) and African percussion (djembe). His translations include William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Sam Steiner’s Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons.

He has developed an original methodology for working with actors, combining principles and tools from Grotowski’s approach to physical actions with Meisner’s and Mamet’s techniques for analysing and exploring text and character. He applies this methodology in his directing practice and teaches it in workshops and acting schools.

PLAYS

Itsa, Woman of Sasma, 2024
Two Oranges for Christmas, 2024
Dancing Plague, 2022
Phaethon Safe and Secure, 2021
The Abduction of Tasoula: A Poetic Romance, 2019