CV IOANNA LIOUTSIA - ENGLISH

Ioanna Lioutsia was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1992. She is a PhD researcher on Performance Art in Balkans (1970-2000) and its aesthetic and politic dimensions (Theatre Studies department, University of Peloponnese). She holds an integrated master degree in Directing (Theatre department, AUTh, 2018), a BA in Acting (Contemporary Theatre Drama School, 2017) and a BA in History&Archaeology with specialization in History of Art (AUTh, 2014), while she never stopped participating in theatre and dance seminars on various subjects (practice & theory).

She works as an actress, director and Drama in Education facilitator, mainly conducting and running programmes about immigration and refugees in cooperation with Amnesty International, but also facilitating workshops and lessons (one semester in the University of Peloponnese) on directing and performance art.
Moreover, she has participated in international conferences, such as: International Online Symposium “Performing Agora”, organized by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Performative Arts (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK), the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of the Peloponnese (Greece), and the Department of Arts and Design at Staffordshire University (UK) 2021, στο International Theatre Conference “This and that and that: The multiple roles of the Theatre Artist – the double meaning of Performative Criticism”, organized by the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, IATC, Critical Stages, ITI UNESCO 2021,
SDEA Theatre Arts Conference: “Creative Disruption: Exploring New Ground” 2021, XV Theatre Conference 2019 (Jaipur, India), as well as in series of talksorganized by Athens Epidaurus Festival etc.

She was one of the presenters in the TV talkshow “SKT of AUTh” in state channel ERT3 (2018-2019).
She has written the following books: 12 short plays for 19 World Days (for use in primary school, 2021), Silence in two spaces, (poetry, 2019), Arrythmias (poetry, 2016), Talks on Mi+ (poetry, 2014) and has translated two Henrik Ibsen’s plays: Norma or Politician’s love (2020) and St. John’s Eve (to be published in 2022). Poems, as well as texts of her about theatre and literature, are published in poetry anthologies and magazines. She speaks English (C2), Italian (B2) and German (A2).

As an actress she has participated in theatre performances such as:
 A beloved enemy, international public space performance, Studio Teatar, Loop & Creative Europe, Zenica, (ΒiH) 13.07.2021
 Oedipus Genus / actress and translator, National Theatre of Northern Greece, 2019
 Aikaterini Kornaro goes to opera / recitation libretto, taught by M. Pogatzi – Fink, Teloglion Foundation of Arts, 2016
 Crushed Remembrance / actress – dramaturg
 Aeschyleia Festival, Eleysis Attica, 2015
 The House of Bernarda Alba / actress, Thessaloniki, 2014 – 2015

As a director she has directed:
 Call me! / director and actress, telephone drama, 2020
 Vigil / dramaturg and director, Giannitsa&Thessaloniki, 2019-2020
 La Ronde (A. Schnitzler) / actress and director, 2018
 3.318/510 Ovid’s Metamorphoses/ director–dramaturg,
Participation in Festival Européen Latin Grec 2018 «Metamorphoses!»
 Oedipus Rex / assistant director, National Theatre of Northern Greece,Thessaloniki 2017
 Tranzistor / writer – director
musical, Thessaloniki, 2016

As a playwright, plays of her staged:
 Apethanto (Immortal) / Athens & Larissa, 2021
 The dead don’t speak: The case of Odysseus Androutsos / Chani Gravias, 2021
 The Land of Liberty / DiE, National Theatre of Northern Greece, 2019 -2020
 Towards Liberty / DiE, National Theatre of Nothern Greece, 2019 – 2020
 Hands Always Come Along / DeaFestival, Thessaloniki, 2019
 Participation with poetry in Poetic Analogio / National Theatre of Nothern Greece, 2018
 To be afraid of loneliness and people / Thessaloniki & Athens, 2015

As a performer, she has planned and performed performance art pieces such as:
 Every day is Woman’s Day / XIII Florence Biennale(3rd award) and Larissa (Greece), 2021
 Every handshake is politics / art exhibition "Haiti Hellas 1821-2021 - Journey to Freedom / Respect" , Spetses & Nafplion, 2021
 Ghost City / performance that travels to cities in North&Central Greece, 2020
 WaterOil Trust / performance against oil extraction in Eperus, Thessaloniki, 2019
 Chronotopia:a walk into the history of Faculty of Philosophy building, site - specific performance / AUTh, 2019
 Counting Her Dresses, inaugural event of Festival Anoichti Skini 2018 by Municipality of Thessaloniki, 2018
 Silencio /
Thessaloniki, 2017 (parallel event of 52nd Festival Dimitria)
Exhibition Stille, Berlin, 2017
Venice International Experimental Art Festival, 2016
 The Book of Blood: The Human Writes/ in collaboration with Leibniz Live Art Company, 50th Festival Dimitria, Thessaloniki, 2015
 BREATH – BECKETT / concept by T. Bostantzis, Thessaloniki, 2015

Awards:
 3rd award on Perfomance category, XIII Florence Biennale for the performance “Every day is Woman’s Day”, 2021
 Shortlist of 9 texts (among 365 from 61 countries) for the play First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin”, Theatertreffen Berliner Festspiele, 2019
 2nd prize in playwriting competition of State theatre of Northern Aegean for the play To be afraid of loneliness and people, 2014

References of her work in:
 Master thesis Poetic Crawls in Greek Contemporary Poetry (poets born between 1975-1995) during the Crisis decade (2008-2018), Eleni Polymatidou, Pedagogical School, AUTh, 2019
 Manson C. & Nelson J., Contemporary Performance Almanac 2017, pg. 324 – 325, Contemporary Performance, New York, 2017