KOSTAS FILIPPOGLOU

Actor • Director • Theatre Teacher

Physical Theatre • Devised Theatre • Acting • Directing

Kostas Filippoglou is an actor, director and theatre teacher. He began his theatre studies in Athens and continued his training with actors and teachers from across Europe, focusing on physical and devised theatre.

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Artistic Career

Since 1986, he has worked professionally as an actor in Greece and has appeared in numerous theatre productions.

His collaborations include:

Technοchoros Theatre with Yannis Kakleas
Amore Theatre with Yannis Houvardas
Porta Theatre
Athens and Epidaurus Festival
National Theatre of Greece

Physical and Devised Theatre

His artistic and pedagogical research focuses on physical and devised theatre, the physical presence of the performer and collaborative approaches to performance creation.

Complicité

Since 1999, he has worked mainly internationally with the theatre company Complicité.

He has taken part in the company’s performances and workshops in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.

International Stages

He has performed at major international venues, including:

National Theatre, London
Peter Brook’s Bouffes du Nord, Paris
venues across Europe and the United States

Mnemonic – National Theatre London

From April to August 2024, he performed in London in

Mnemonic

at the National Theatre with Complicité.

University Teaching

He taught as Assistant Professor at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Patras.
He is a regular collaborator and instructor in the postgraduate programme of Theatre Studies at NKUA.

Workshops and Drama Schools

As a theatre teacher, he has taught:

in numerous European cities,
in New York,
at drama schools in Greece,
in theatre-in-education seminars,
in workshops organised by himself.

Physical and Devised Theatre Workshop

He founded his own school-workshop in Athens, where he teaches physical and devised theatre.

He also continues teaching at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece and in the postgraduate programme of Theatre Studies at NKUA.

Selected Directing Work 2003–2012

2003 — Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, in his own adaptation, Kalamata Municipal and Regional Theatre.
2006 — Odyssevach by Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Kozani Municipal and Regional Theatre.
2011-2012 — Civil Disobedience, collaboratively devised.
2011-2012 — Orestes – Electra 0-1, Athens and Nicosia.

Selected Directing Work 2012–2015

2012-2013 — Paper Flowers by Egon Wolff, Ilisia Theatre.
2012-2013 — Historia de un amor or The Ants by Thanasis Triaridis, Olvio Theatre.
2013-2014 — Tirza by Arnon Grunberg, Ilisia Theatre.
2013-2014 — Mengele by Thanasis Triaridis, Faust Theatre.
2014 — Philoctetes by Sophocles, Epidaurus.
2014-2015 — The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Thission Theatre.
2014-2015 — Exit, devised production, Bios.
2015 — Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, Epidaurus and Odeon of Herodes Atticus.

Selected Directing Work 2016–2020

2016-2017 — Black Snow, adapted from the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, Porta Theatre.
2017-2018 — No Man’s Land by Harold Pinter, Thission Theatre.
2017-2018 — Miss Julie by August Strindberg, Agrinio Municipal and Regional Theatre.
2018 — The Frogs by Aristophanes, Epidaurus and Odeon of Herodes Atticus.
2019 — Miss Julie, Apo Michanis Theatre.
2019 — The Seven Daughters of Eve, Mavromichali Studio.
2020 — The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, Alfa Theatre.

Selected Directing Work 2021–Present

2021-2022 — God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, translated by Kostas Filippoglou and Giota Seremeti, Athina Theatre.
2023-2024 — Iliad, Thessalian Theatre.
2023-2024 — Pothen Esches, Veaki Theatre.
2025-2026 — continued performing at major Athens venues, including Veaki Theatre, Anesis Theatre and the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus.
He is currently acting in and directing Eric Westphal’s You and Your Clouds at METS Theatre.

Greek and World Theatre: Drama, Performance, Education

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