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Àdreas is a Director, Creative Producer, Interdisciplinary Artist and Singer.
He holds a BA in Theatre Studies from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UOA) and the MA Text and Performance at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) and the Birkbeck College, University of London.
In the UK, whilst studying at RADA, he started off as a casual member of the main stage crew for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In a zero-hour contract with Ambassador Theatre Group, as a Stage Crew member for the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, which was interrupted by the pandemic. After gaining access through RADA in the National Television Awards of 2020 just as a seat-filler, he fell in love with the screen industry and started booking various roles as a supporting artist in Feature and TV, to gain experience in the sector. As an aspiring producer, company director and entrepreneur, always after innovation, in August 2020 he begun setting-up S.T.O.A. Group Ltd. which meant to be a multi-departmental Parent Company, of five Limited by Guarantee subsidiaries, each representing a different creative sector.
Before RADA, he followed Filmaking, Scriptwriting and Cinematography courses as a member of the Cinema Sector of P.O.F.P.A. (sector of the University of Athens, 2016-2018). Additionally, participated in the Greek National Theatre labs for Lighting Design and Set & Costume Design (2016-2018), whilst also studying directing, acting and playwriting at the "Theatre of Changes Drama School", as well as Music and Singing in the Greek National Conservatory. Holds a degree in Music Harmony and sings in the Countertenor region from a G2 up to F5, with belt up to C5. He is also professionally trained in classical ballet and contemporary dance and had was accepted in the Berlin B12 Dance Festival of 2016 where he followed choreography and dancetheatre workshops with Punchdrunk, Liquidloft and Peeping Tom.
First attempted full-scale directing in May 2017, with a mini-film inspired by Ionesco's "Rhinoceros", which later adapted into a 45' show of the play. The latter took place in the annual theatre festival of the "Theatre of Changes" (September 2017), winning as "Best Performance" amongst three other prizes. Following that, on February 2018, he was hired as a stand-in emergency coach & company director by "Theatrodini" Theatre Group, a team composed of 30 members. There, he directed a version of Vassily Sigarev's "Plasticine" (May-June 2018), for three completely different stages that required three different adaptations: an Italian-type classical stage ("Apollon" Theatre, Syros Island), a large-studio theatre ("Embros" Theatre, Athens) and a non-theatrical building with a small black-box ("Kostis Palamas" Building, Athens), in which the show was transcribed into a promenade/immersive performance.
Backstage, he started off with an Apprentice as an Administrative Assistant to the Artistic Director of the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus (Nikos Diamandis). Followed by Production & Performance Coordinator / Prop Master at Katerina Evangelatos' Goethe's "Faust". 1st Assistant Director / Production and Performance Coordinator for "Argo" Theatre (2017-2018) (Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Directed by: Lazaros Georkakopoulos & Jean Genet's "The Tightrope Walker" Directed by: Zoe Mandas) and "Kefallinias" Theatre (Lia Vitali's "Roastbeef" Directed by: Chrysa Kapsouli). Performer in Konstadinos Rigos' "Romeo and Juliet" and Kostas Gakis' "Wondrous Tongues of the World".
He holds a BA in Theatre Studies from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UOA) and the MA Text and Performance at RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) and the Birkbeck College, University of London.
In the UK, whilst studying at RADA, he started off as a casual member of the main stage crew for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In a zero-hour contract with Ambassador Theatre Group, as a Stage Crew member for the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, which was interrupted by the pandemic. After gaining access through RADA in the National Television Awards of 2020 just as a seat-filler, he fell in love with the screen industry and started booking various roles as a supporting artist in Feature and TV, to gain experience in the sector. As an aspiring producer, company director and entrepreneur, always after innovation, in August 2020 he begun setting-up S.T.O.A. Group Ltd. which meant to be a multi-departmental Parent Company, of five Limited by Guarantee subsidiaries, each representing a different creative sector.
Before RADA, he followed Filmaking, Scriptwriting and Cinematography courses as a member of the Cinema Sector of P.O.F.P.A. (sector of the University of Athens, 2016-2018). Additionally, participated in the Greek National Theatre labs for Lighting Design and Set & Costume Design (2016-2018), whilst also studying directing, acting and playwriting at the "Theatre of Changes Drama School", as well as Music and Singing in the Greek National Conservatory. Holds a degree in Music Harmony and sings in the Countertenor region from a G2 up to F5, with belt up to C5. He is also professionally trained in classical ballet and contemporary dance and had was accepted in the Berlin B12 Dance Festival of 2016 where he followed choreography and dancetheatre workshops with Punchdrunk, Liquidloft and Peeping Tom.
First attempted full-scale directing in May 2017, with a mini-film inspired by Ionesco's "Rhinoceros", which later adapted into a 45' show of the play. The latter took place in the annual theatre festival of the "Theatre of Changes" (September 2017), winning as "Best Performance" amongst three other prizes. Following that, on February 2018, he was hired as a stand-in emergency coach & company director by "Theatrodini" Theatre Group, a team composed of 30 members. There, he directed a version of Vassily Sigarev's "Plasticine" (May-June 2018), for three completely different stages that required three different adaptations: an Italian-type classical stage ("Apollon" Theatre, Syros Island), a large-studio theatre ("Embros" Theatre, Athens) and a non-theatrical building with a small black-box ("Kostis Palamas" Building, Athens), in which the show was transcribed into a promenade/immersive performance.
Backstage, he started off with an Apprentice as an Administrative Assistant to the Artistic Director of the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus (Nikos Diamandis). Followed by Production & Performance Coordinator / Prop Master at Katerina Evangelatos' Goethe's "Faust". 1st Assistant Director / Production and Performance Coordinator for "Argo" Theatre (2017-2018) (Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Directed by: Lazaros Georkakopoulos & Jean Genet's "The Tightrope Walker" Directed by: Zoe Mandas) and "Kefallinias" Theatre (Lia Vitali's "Roastbeef" Directed by: Chrysa Kapsouli). Performer in Konstadinos Rigos' "Romeo and Juliet" and Kostas Gakis' "Wondrous Tongues of the World".