Michaela Antoniou

Michaela Antoniou is actor, director, translator, author and Special Teaching Staff in Acting: Theory and Practice at the Theatre Studies Department at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She was born in Piraeus and grew up in Athens and Thessaloniki. She got her acting diploma at the National Theatre of Greece Drama School and her BA Degree at the Theatre Studies Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She completed her MA (“Performance and Culture”) and PhD (on Acting and Directing) with Professor Maria Shevtsova at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has taught at the Theatre Studies Department, Goldsmiths, University of London. As an academic, she has published articles in Greek and international journals, such as New Theatre Quarterly (Cambridge Press), Stanislavski Studies (Taylor&Francis/Routledge) and Parabasis (University of Athens). She has directed Doors (Πόρτες) by Chrysa Spilioti, Athens after the Rain (H Αθήνα μετά τη Βροχή) by Giorgos Michailidis, A Simple Heart (Μια Απλή Καρδιά) by Giorgos Maniotis and others. As a director and theatre trainer, she also focusses on community theatre work and theatre applied to young people aiming to bring together multicultural characteristics in an intercultural environment and implemented these projects in Primary Schools (A. Paraskevi 2nd Primary School, Kalivia 2nd Primary School). As an actress, she has performed on the stage under the guidance of directors. such as Spyros Evangelatos, Yiorgos Michailidis and Antonis Antoniou. Her translations for the theatre include Duck Variations by David Mamet, Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman and Home by David Storey. Her play Untitled due to Amnesia was performed in Athens and Patras, 2009-2010. She has written two novels Daisy and the Sunflowers and Daisy and the Sea. She is fluent in English, French and Spanish.