Andreas Flourakis is considered one of the most innovative voices in the Greek theatre scene and part of a new generation of playwrights born in 1969 in Athens. Flourakis participated in the Royal Court International Residency in 2001 and has served as visiting professor in Playwriting at The University of Kansas, as well as in several institutions in Greece.

Honors include a Writer in Residence Award at the Royal Court International Residency (UK), a Fulbright Artist Award (USA), a Diploma in Filmmaking (Greece) and an MA in Writing for the Stage and Broadcast Media at the Central School of Speech and Drama (UK).

His first appearance in the theatre took place in 2001; in 2003 he received a special distinction in the one-act play contest organized by the Art Theatre; in 2006 his play Antelopes was chosen as one of the sixteen best plays in the JANUS Project for New Plays and New Playwriting across Europe, and in 2008 he was awarded in the one-act play contest organized by the DI.PE.THE (municipal theatre) of Rhodes and received the 3rd prize in the International Monodrama Contest 2006-2008 of UNESCO-ITI.

His plays have been performed in distinguished Greek theatres during the last decade. His work has been translated into English, French, Italian, Turkish, Romanian, Polish and Finnish and has been performed or included in readings at the Royal Court Theatre, the Gate Theatre, the West Yorkshire Playhouse and the Tristan Bates in Great Britain, the Oyun Yaz festival in Istanbul, at the Helsinki Festival, the Comparative Drama Conference, the HotINK festival, the GI60 festival in the USA and elsewhere. He has also published two novels and four books of poems.

PLAYS

Medea’s  Treads, 2014

Workout for Strong Knees, 2013

I Want a Country, 2013

Lassie, 2013

Belle Epoque, 2012

Greek Cuisine, 2011

Shell, 2011

Medea’s Burka, 2010

Psychic Force (Cassie), 2010

Animal, 2009

Priam’s Night Marching, 2008

Antelopes, 2006

Atreides, End, 2005

Blind Faith, 2004

Ice,2003

Her Leaves, 2003

The Days Before You Came, 2002

Faith Material, 2002

Sea Blue, 2001

The Phoenix And Its Chicken, 2001

In An Hour, 2001