Andreas Staikos was born in Athens. He studied philology in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and theatre in Conservatoire National d’Art Dramatique in Paris.

He has written and directed several works for the theatre: Dedalus, Clytemnestra (1974); 1843, Ostrich Feathers (1994).

He directs most of his plays in their first performance as a result of the special way he writes them: during the rehearsals with the actors’ help. He has also written the prose works: Smutty Henrietta (1978),  Bathsheba (2012), The Naughty Girls (2017) and the Liaisons Culinaires (1997), a novel translated in more that twenty languages and also adapted for the theatre.

He has also translated a great number of French authors of the 18th and 19th centuries, including Molière, Racine, Marivaux, Musset, Claudel, as well as Laclos’ Les Liaisons dangeureuses. His plays have been presented at the National Theatre of Greece, the State Theatre of Northern Greece (KTHBE), and the Municipal Regional Theatres of Patras, Larissa and Kalamata, as well as at European venues and stages in Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Germany, Catalonia, Romania, Georgia, Hungary and Italy.

He has taught theatrical writing and theatrical translation in several university departments and in The European Center for the Translation of Literature and the Human Sciences.

PLAYS

Lela and Lela, 2025

Alifira, 2024

Ermioni, 2022

The Thorny Princesses, 2018, a stage adaptation of  Dangerous Cooking 

Alcestis and sweet dreams, 2012

Napoleontia, 2007

Capnocrator, 2005

Akolastes Esperides, 2003

Curtain, 1999

Apple de Milo, 1996

Ostrich Feathers, 1994

Olympia’s Little Finger, 1992

1843, 1990

Karakoroum, 1989

Clytemnestra?, 1974

Daedalus, 1971