An actor takes on a role. They know nothing about it. A role is taken on by an actor; the actor knows nothing about it. Right at the beginning, at the zero point of their encounter, the possibilities are infinite. The directions both can take are countless. In this moment, when neither knows anything about the other, everything is possible.
An intensive acting workshop exploring all the beginnings an actor can make with their role.
The workshop is open to professional and amateur actors, with selection based on submission of a CV.
Elektra Ellinikioti was born in 1987. She lives and works in Athens.
She studied acting in Athens and directing in New York.
She is a founding member of the theatre company Theros and, since 2013, a member of the group bijoux de kant.
She has collaborated as a director with Bios, the New World Theatre, the Michalis Cacoyannis Foundation, the Kykladon Street Theatre – Lefteris Voyatzis, the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, the Art Theatre of Karolos Koun, Thiseion – a theatre for the arts, the National Theatre, and the theatre Horos.
In 2016, she directed her first short film, *The Most Beautiful Story in the World*, and has since co-written the scripts for two other short films. She has worked as a script consultant on two short films: *The Silence of the Fish When They Die* (official selections at Sundance and Locarno Festivals) and *The Distance Between the Sky and Us* (Golden Phoenix 2019).
*click: Elli Tsatsou*
