The core of the workshop will focus on the vital question for an actor: “How can an actor make someone else’s words their own?” Through specific exercises and improvisations, we will attempt to answer this question and infuse our words with our soul, experiences, and sensations. The vehicle for these four weeks will be Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull.”
Konstantinos Bibis is a graduate of the Drama School of the Art Theater. For his performance in the play “The Tree of Oedipus,” he was awarded the “Dimitris Horn” award in 2017.
He trained in the “System” of Stanislavski and the “Method” of the Actors Studio under Andreas Manolikas, president of the Actors Studio Drama School Master of Fine Arts program, attending his seminars in Athens for six consecutive years.
With the Idea Group, he created the play “Romeo and Juliet for 2” and toured it across Greece, Cyprus at the New Stage of ThOC, Serbia (invited by Nikita Milivojevic to the 1st World Shakespeare Festival), the Almagro Festival in Spain, where they won first place, Folia 2016 in Portugal, Teatro Clasico MX in Mexico, and the Greek Theater Festival in Zurich. His performance in this play also earned him a nomination for the “Dimitris Horn” award in 2014. As a member of the Idea Group, he directed the works “The Last Black Cat” by Eugene Trivizas, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Shakespeare, the “Aristophaniada” (their own text, co-production of DΗΠΕΘΕ Crete and the Greek Festival).
He adapted and directed Menelaos Lountemis’ novel “The World Clock Strikes Midnight” (National Theater 2015–2016) and Dimitris Zougou’s “Small Europe,” a contemporary political revue (Act Theater). As an actor, he participated in the plays: “Signal of Danger” by Antonis Samarakis directed by Angelos Antonopoulos, “Odyssebach” by Xenia Kalogeropoulou directed by Kostas Gakis, “Hippolytus” directed by Lydia Koniordou, “The Tree of Oedipus” directed by Kostas Gakis, “The Birds” directed by Nikos Karathanos, “Ion” directed by Ioli Andreadi, “Under the Stars” directed by himself, Lila Baklesi and Artemidos Grybla, etc. The plays “The Birds” and “Ion” were also performed successfully in New York.
In the previous theater season, he starred in “The Inspector” by Nikolai Gogol, directed by Kostas Filippoglou at Alpha Theater, and in “War and Peace,” directed by Ioli Andreadi at the Municipal Theater of Piraeus.
This theater season, he stars alongside Maria Kehagioglou in “Events” by David Greig, directed by Alexandros Raptopatsios at the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera, as well as in “The Glass Menagerie” as Tom at the New Stage of the National Theater, directed by Giorgos Nanouris.
He served as the artistic director of the historic Alpha Theater from 2016 to 2020. At Alpha, he also taught students and graduates for all four years. He has delivered workshops in Patras, Ioannina, Thessaloniki, Athens, as well as in Mexico and Portugal.
