GEORGIA TSANGARAKI
Georgia is a director, actor, theater educator and dramatherapist. She completed her B.A. studies with Honors degree from the Greek National Theater Drama School in 1994 and continued with a one year post graduate course in Great Britain and Arts Educational London Schools. She is trained in voice, dance, Kung –Fu, Buttoh, Suzuki method, acting for the camera, video- art, creative writing, and is currently in her fourth year of a Dramatherapy Masters degree.
Since 1996 she has been working as an actor with the National and Independent Theatre of Greece in multiple shows (Greek tragedies and contemporary pieces alike).She has participated in short and feature films, as well as television shows. She teaches voice, acting, and movement in Greece and abroad, using a unique practice that has created based on Greek Chorus and the importance of working in an ensemble. The method applies to different educational acting and self development programs. She has collaborated as an educator and director with: SITI company (N.Y) , Carnegie Melon University (Pittsburgh), MB2 Centro Para la Experimentacion de las Artes (Arica-Chile), Uniacc (Santiago, Chile), Baumastrasse (Athens) OYL’S Apprentice company (Papingo, Greece) and many more. She is the creator and artistic director of an Arts space in Athens called “The Farm” where she teaches theatre in nature and runs Dramatherapy sessions. She has co-written with Angelita Tsougou “Paperback Romance” a comedy inspired by Mills-and-Boon type books and “Mary End John” , a contemporary tragedy, based on the myth of Clytemnestra. She has also written a woman’s monologue “Mother tongue” that talks about sexual abuse and dealing with this trauma as well as a children series under the title “Kora Korn and the adventures of life”. The reality of a little girl with diabetes type 1.
She directs plays, most of the times adapting the originals, especially ancient Greek tragedies: “Mary an John” (Athens 2018) , “Las Bacantes” (MB2 Chile, 2017)“Las Bacantes Flamencas” (NY Thalia theatre, 2019) , “Alkestis” (MB2, Chile, 2019), just to mention a few. Her direction “LEMON” , an adaptation of her own in “Novecento” by Alessandro Baricco, is receiving excellent reviews by the Greek audience and press, and runs with great success for the third year in Art Spaces in Athens and around Greece. Has also gained the award of Best Direction and Best Play in the Comic 7B international festival de Teatru in Buzau Romania , 2019.
She speaks Italian, Spanish and English and is also and mostly a mother of an amazing child. Her main concern is finding ways to teach people the art of performing in different circumstances and conventions, without ever losing their truth and personal involvement to the project. She believes the art of Theatre is therapeutic, inspiring and life changing and her workshops around the world have a great impact on people s lives.
