Andreas Andreou

Andreas received his BA in Classics from King’s College London, his MA in Text & Performance from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Birkbeck College, and his MFA in Theatre Directing from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he was awarded the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize for Directing. He is also the recipient of the Schilizzi Foundation Scholarship, the National Bank of Greece Alexis Minotis Bequest Scholarship, the Todd Salovey, John M. Badham, Alan Poul, and Edgar and Louise Cullman Scholarships.

His directing work, showcased in several countries, includes the US premieres of Utopia by Mikhail Durnenkov and Apologiae 4 & 5 by Academy Award Nominee Efthimis Filippou; the Romanian premiere of Far Away by Caryl Churchill, and the Greek premiere of An Oak Tree by Tim Crouch. While at Yale, he also directed Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Coriolanus, Caryl Churchill’s Lovesick, as well as new plays. His own plays, My Death Etc. and M.A.Z.I., have represented the National Theatre of Greece internationally under the auspices of the Union des Théâtres de l'Europe (UTE). In 2021, he directed his first short film, By Heart.

Between 2017 and 2020, Andreas worked on several projects with German theatre group Rimini Protokoll at major European institutions. In 2023, he collaborated with Robert Wilson on his productions of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women and Jarry/Miró’s UBU at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus and The Watermill Center, respectively. He also served as The Watermill Center Summer Program Assistant that same year. Andreas has attended directing seminars with esteemed directors Dima Krymov, Thomas Ostermeier, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Ian Rickson, Lyndsey Turner, and others. He has also trained under Theodoros Terzopoulos and Savvas Stroumpos in the internationally recognized, intensely physical method of the Attis Theatre.

Andreas is currently the Rattlestick Theatre Directing Fellow. As a visiting artist and educator, he has collaborated with the International Network of Ancient Drama, the I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film of Romania, and the National Theatre of Greece Drama School.