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Department of Theatre Studies

ANTONIOU MICHAELA

Photograph of Michaela Antoniou

MICHAELA ANTONIOU

EDIP

Theatre Studies – Acting: Theory and Practice

Office: 916, Department of Theatre Studies, NKUA
Office hours: Monday 16:30-19:00 & Tuesday 12:00-14:00

Director, actress, theatre scholar, and PhD graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London, supported by an IKY scholarship. Graduated with distinction from both the National Theatre of Greece Drama School and the Department of Theatre Studies of NKUA. She taught at the Drama Department of Goldsmiths, University of London. She teaches at the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema and at the Department of Theatre Studies of NKUA, where she has been working since 2018.

Her research and scholarly interests focus on the history, theory, and practice of acting and directing in the 20th and 21st centuries, in Greece and the international theatre field, as well as on the approach to and analysis of performance events.

She has undertaken scholarly editing for books, albums, and performance programmes. She has participated in international conferences, scholarly workshops, and symposia organised by important theatrical and university institutions in Greece and abroad. She has contributed chapters to collective volumes, and her articles have been published in scholarly journals.

As an actress, she collaborated with directors such as Spyros Evangelatos, Giorgos Michailidis, Antonis Antoniou, among others. As a director, she works in Greece and abroad and has staged works by Chrysa Spilioti, Giorgos Maniotis, as well as original stage compositions in Athens and London. As a writer, she writes for the stage and has published two novels. She has translated for the theatre works by David Mamet, Ariel Dorfman, David Storey, among others.

Acting & DirectingPerformance StudiesContemporary Theatre
Research Interests
  • History, theory, and practice of acting and directing (20th–21st century)
  • Analysis and theory of the performance event (performance analysis)
  • Contemporary Greek and international theatre
Participation in Programmes
  • Scientific coordinator of the European Erasmus+ KA2 project titled “Drama based training program for increasing the gender equality in persons with intellectual disabilities” 2022-1-ES01-KA220-ADU-000088102
  • Scientific coordinator of the European Erasmus+ KA2 project titled “DUB-IN: The Transformative Power of my Voice. Charting Future Directions on Social Skills Training for People with Psychosocial Disability” 2021-1-ES01-KA220-ADU-000033586.
  • Deputy scientific coordinator and director in the European Creative Europe project titled “Lyriqas” CREA-CULT-2021-COOP-1 / CREA2027 / 101056266.
  • Deputy scientific coordinator in the European Erasmus+ KA2 project titled “Digital Arts Dialogue – DigiArts” 2021-1-ES02-KA220-YOU-000028785.
  • Deputy scientific coordinator and director in the European Erasmus+ KA2 project titled “ACTitude: Improvisation techniques training program for mental health professionals to empower patients with psychiatric diagnose to act against emotional and verbal violence” 2019- 1- ES01-KA202-065170.
Publications (selected)
  1. Michaela Antoniou, Skotos, emon faos. Tribute to Theodoros Terzopoulos, Kardamitsa, 2025.
  2. Michaela Antoniou, Centrifugal Narratives, Papazisis, 2024.
  3. Michaela Antoniou, Stanislavsky and the Russian acting and directing tradition in twenty-first century Greece: the work of Stathis Livathinos, Stanislavski Studies (2023), DOI: 10.1080/20567790.2023.2258515
Books / Monographs
  • Angelos Terzakis. Anxious and Wakeful, Lily Alexiadou – Michaela Antoniou (eds.), Foreword by Chrysothemis Stamatopoulou-Vasilakou, Kapa, Athens 2021, p. 284.
Current Topics
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  • Topic 2 — short description.
Conferences / Talks
  • 2025 — Title, Institution, City.
  • 2024 — Title, Institution, City.
Undergraduate Courses
  • Acting I
  • Acting II
  • Dubbing
  • Contemporary Directing Approaches I
  • Contemporary Directing Approaches II
Postgraduate Courses / Supervision
  • Contemporary Theatre and Avant-Gardes