Director Katerina Evangelatou was appointed art director of the Greek Festival, the Culture Ministry announced on Sunday, according to ANA.
Katerina Evangelatou is an award-winning theater director. A graduate of the Hellenic National Drama School, with a M.A in Theater Directing with Distinction from the famous Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS) in Moscow and from Middlesex University in London, Katerina Evangelatou has directed acclaimed productions for the National Theater of Greece, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Greek National Opera, the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens, the Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater in Russia and the Staatstheater Augsburg in Germany. These include Euripides’ Alcestis and Rhesus, Brecht’s Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, Tennessee Williams’ Glass Menagerie, Goethe’s Faust, Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Der goldene Drache and Idomeneus, Ivan Vyrypaev’s Illusions, Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffman, B?chner’s Woyzeck, and Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors.
The members of the board will be appointed soon.
Evangelatou will succeed Vangelis Theodoropoulos while her term will last three years.
The Culture Ministry thanked Theodoropoulos for his contribution to the Greek Festival during the last three years.
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