Avra Sidiropoulou is Artistic Director of Persona Theatre Company. She is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Theatre at the Open University of Cyprus. Her publications include Directions for Directing. Theatre and Method, (Routledge 2018), Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre, (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) Adapting Greek Tragedy. Contemporary Contexts for Ancient Texts (co-editor, CUP 2021), Staging 21st century Tragedies. Theatre, Politics and Global Crisis (editor, Routledge 2022) and “Contemporary Directions in Director Training” (co-editor, special issue, TDPT).
Avra was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Arts Barcelona, Columbia University, the Martin E. Segal Centre at CUNY, MIT, the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds and Surrey, the Institute of Theatre Studies at Freie University in Berlin and was a Japan Foundation Fellow at the University of Tokyo. She has lectured and conducted workshops and seminars on directing methodology, practice and ethics in various parts of the world.
As the Αrtistic Director of Athens-based Persona Theatre Company and a freelance professional she has directed works from the classical and contemporary repertory. Her most recent directing works include Euripides’ Medea at Copenhagen Stage Festival; Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya at Dionysos Theatre in Nicosia (December 2023); Karen Malpede’s Troy Too at Here Arts Center in New York (May 2023); Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal at the Cyprus Theatre Organization (2022) and Enter Hamlet (her adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet) at the Verona Shakespeare Fringe Festival (2022). In 2020 she was nominated for the Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award by the League of Professional Theatre Women in New York.
E-mail: avra.sidiropoulou@ouc.ac.cy
Website: https://persona.gr/en/people/avra-sidiropoulou/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avra-sidiropoulou-763b51/
Academia: https://ouc.academia.edu/AvraSidiropoulou