The core of the workshop will revolve around a vital question for every actor: *“How can an actor make someone else’s words their own?”* Through specific exercises and improvisations, we will attempt to answer this question — to breathe our soul, experiences, and senses into the words. 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 Theatre (Theatro Technis). He was awarded the “Dimitris Horn” award in 2017 for his performance in the play *The Tree of Oedipus*.
He trained in the Stanislavski “System” and the Actors Studio “Method” under Andreas Manolikas, President of the Actors Studio Drama School MFA Program, attending his seminars in Athens for six consecutive years.
With the Idea Group, he created the production *Romeo and Juliet for Two* and toured extensively across Greece, Cyprus (at THOC’s New Stage), Serbia (invited by Nikita Milivojevic to the 1st World Shakespeare Festival), the Almagro Festival in Spain (winning first prize), Folia 2016 in Portugal, Teatro Clasico MX in Mexico, and the Greek Theatre Festival in Zurich. His performance in this production also earned him a nomination for the “Dimitris Horn” award in 2014. As a member of Idea Group, he has directed *The Last Black Cat* by Eugenios Trivizas, Shakespeare’s *A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, and *Aristophaniada*, an original play (co-produced with the Municipal Theatres of Crete and the Hellenic Festival).
He adapted and directed Menelaos Lountemis’ novel *The Clock of the World Strikes Midnight* (National Theatre 2015–2016) and Dimitris Zougos’ *Little Europe*, a contemporary political revue (Act Theatre). As an actor, he has appeared in productions including *Distress Signal* by Antonis Samarakis (dir. Angelos Antonopoulos), *Odyssevah* by Xenia Kalogeropoulou (dir. Kostas Gakis), *Hippolytus* (dir. Lydia Koniordou), *The Tree of Oedipus* (dir. Kostas Gakis), *The Birds* (dir. Nikos Karathanos), *Ion* (dir. Ioli Andreadi), *Under the Stars* (dir. himself, Lila Baklesi, and Artemidos Grybla), among others. *The Birds* and *Ion* were also presented successfully in New York.
In the previous theatre season, he starred in Gogol’s *The Inspector General* (dir. Kostas Filippoglou, Alpha Theatre) and in *War and Peace* (dir. Ioli Andreadi, Municipal Theatre of Piraeus).
In the current theatre season, he stars alongside Maria Kehayioglou in David Greig’s *Events* (dir. Alexandros Raptotassios) at the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera, and in *The Glass Menagerie* as Tom at the New Stage of the National Theatre (dir. Giorgos Nanouris).
He served as Artistic Director of the historic Alpha Theatre from 2016 to 2020, while also teaching student and graduate groups during those four years. He has conducted workshops in Patras, Ioannina, Thessaloniki, Athens, as well as in Mexico and Portugal.
