Kyriaki Spanou is a theatre director, translator and playwright. For seventeen years, she taught at the Department of Theatre, School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as a Lecturer under Presidential Decree 407. Since 2018, she has been Artistic Director of the Thessalian Theatre.

She graduated from the School of Philosophy at the University of Athens and the P. Veakis Drama School, and studied Theatre Directing at Royal Holloway College in London.

Her directing credits include Vili Sotiropoulou’s Juliet: Is This God Deaf?, S. P. Taylor’s All These Good People, Georg Büchner’s Leonce and Lena (I) and Leonce and Lena (II) at the National Theatre of Northern Greece, and Vili Sotiropoulou’s Ioanna.

For Thessaloniki – European Capital of Culture 1997, she wrote and directed the multimedia performance The Lost Face of Flora Nissim. She has also directed Kechaidis and Chaviaras’s With Strength from Kifissia at the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Patras; L. Kassler’s To Live or to Live Together at the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Kozani; Th. Petropoulos’s The Last Days of Pompeii at Emboriko Theatre; R. Soans’s The Arab-Israeli Cookbook at the Kypseli Municipal Market and Chytirio Theatre; and M. Chourmouzis’s The (Civil) Servant at Alekton Theatre.

She conceived and directed Dance Me to the End of Greece – 1, based on texts by foreign travellers, at the Epigraphic Museum, as well as its second part, Dance Me to the End of Greece – 2: Foreign Travellers in Thessaloniki, at Yeni Mosque for the 2012 Dimitria Festival.

For the Astronauts theatre company, she directed Chekhov’s The Marriage Proposal (2014), and she has also directed numerous staged readings. She directed her own play Frida’s Pornography at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation and Apo Michanis Theatre (2015–2016).

Her subsequent directing credits include Dora Tsogia’s From Station to Station at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation (2018); Andreas Flourakis’s Cassy, co-directed with three other women directors at Apo Michanis Theatre (2018); and Blood on the Land, her own stage adaptation of the screenplay of the film of the same title, for the Thessalian Theatre (2018).

PLAYS

Undead, 2008
Frida’s Pornography, 2004