CV IOANNA LIOUTSIA

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Ioanna Lioutsia was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1992. She is a PhD researcher at the Theatre Studies Department of the University of the Peloponnese writing her thesis on Performance Art in the Balkans and its Aesthetic and Political Dimensions (1970-2000). She holds an Integrated Master’s degree in Directing (Theatre Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki [AUTh], 2018), a BA in Acting (Contemporary Theatre Drama School, 2017) and a BA in History & Archaeology with a specialization in the History of Art (AUTh, 2014). Throughout her studies she never stopped participating in theatre and dance seminars on various subjects (practice & theory).

She works as a performance artist, actress, director, dramatis and Drama in Education facilitator, mainly conducting and running programmes about immigration and refugees in cooperation with Amnesty International and the Hellenic Theatre & Education Network. She has also planned and conducted educational theatre programs for children and teenagers that were run by the National Theatre of Northern Greece and by the National Greek Opera. She has also facilitated workshops on Performance Art, Applied Theatre and Sound Theatre online at Hippo Theatre e-school (2020–to date). Moreover, she has instructed two courses on directing and performance art as a teaching assistant at the University of the Peloponnese. More specifically, in Spring semester 2021 she was the graduate student instructor of the course Theatre Directing and Theatre Production, while in Spring semester 2022 she instructed the course Performance and Applied Theatre: Social Theatre, that was held at the Correctional Facility of Tiryns, Greece.

She has written the following books: Wide Vowels and Bitten Consonants (poetry, 2022), 12 short plays for 19 World Days (short theatrical plays for use in primary school, 2021), Silence in two spaces, (poetry, 2019), Arrythmias (poetry, 2016), Conversations on Do(n’t) Major (poetry, 2014) and has translated into Greek two plays by Henrik Ibsen: Norma or A Politician’s Love (2020) and St. John’s Eve (2022). Moreover, she has translated in English kinemo (theatrical theory manifesto by Hippo Theatre Goup, 2022). Poems, as well as articles about theatre and literature, are published in poetry anthologies and magazines.

She speaks English (C2), Italian (B2) and German (A2) and she is learning Serbian and Turkish.

Selection of performance art pieces planned and performed (performer):

Nuclear Power: Sleep / all night (8-hour length) performance in Kamiros, Athens (Greece), October 2023
Every day is Woman’s Day / XIII Florence Biennale (3rd award), and in public space at Princeton University Campus (USA), Thessaloniki and Larissa (Greece), 2021-2022
Every handshake is politics / video-performance at art exhibition “Haiti Hellas 1821-2021 - Journey to Freedom / Respect”, Spetses & Nafplion (Greece), August-October 2021
A beloved enemy / international public-space group performance in Zenica, (Bosnia Herzegovina), organized and funded by Studio Teatar, Loop & Creative Europe, 13.07.2021
Ghost City / public-space performance at cities in Northern & Central Greece, 2020
Chronotopia: a walk into the history of Faculty of Philosophy building / site-specific performance at AUTh, 2019
Counting Her Dresses / public-space inaugural event of Open Stage Festival (“Anoichti Skini” 2018) of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNfSWmbVwKI&t=36s]
Silencio / public-space performance in Thessaloniki (parallel event of 52nd Festival “Dimitria”, 2017), Exhibition Stille, Berlin (2017), and 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

Theatre performances directed or co – directed (director):

Pros/Fygi (Recourse) / dramatist, actress, director, Open Scene Festival, Thessaloniki (Greece), 2023
Topography of death or Let us not forget / dramatist and co – director, walking performance, National Theatre of Greece, 2022
We are Even / adaptator and co-director, performance for young audience, Guild of Laughter, 2022-2023
A feast at Nourian’s / co-director, performance for young audience, Municipal Theatre of Ioannina (Greece), 2022-2023
Vigil / adaptator and director, Giannitsa, Thessaloniki, and Athens 2019-2020, 2022
Call me! / director and actress, telephone drama, 2020
3.318/510 Ovid’s Metamorphoses/ adaptator and director, Participation in Festival Européen Latin Grec 2018 «Metamorphoses!»

Oedipus Rex / assistant director, National Theatre of Northern Greece, Thessaloniki 2017
Tranzistor / writer and director, bar theatre “Kafodeio”, Thessaloniki 2016

Selection of plays staged (playwright):

ATLAS 2000/ dir. Pantelis Flatsousis, Municipal Theatre of Peiraus, 2024
Undead / dir. Alex Raptis & Fotis Dousos, Athens & Larissa, 2021
The End of History / dir. Georgia Kanellopoulou, Kamiros, Athens, 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 the Poetic Staged Reading / National Theatre of Northern Greece, 2018
Beware of Loneliness and People / Thessaloniki & Athens, 2015

Awards:

3rd award in Performance Art, 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 Beware of Loneliness and People, 2014

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