Avra Sidiropoulou is the author of two monographs Directions for Directing: Theatre and Method, published by Routledge, and Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre. She is an assistant professor at the MA Program in Theatre Studies at the Open University of Cyprus. She holds a PhD in Directing Theory, an MFA in Directing, MPhil in American Literature, and MA in Text & Performance. She is the Artistic Director of Athens-based Persona Theatre Company, for which she has directed work from a Classical and Contemporary repertory and lectured and conducted directing workshops in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, the United States, UK, Japan, Israel, Bulgaria, Estonia, and Iran.

AVRA SIDIROPOULOU

Unless it starts from within you, then you’re not going to set the same amount of investment. So there are moments when I feel I’m suffocating within the limits of those roles I have to play, and sometimes I feel like I’m failing them all. I’m always on the lookout for the next thing to quench the desire to create.

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