Avra Sidiropoulou
Member of the Advisory Board – Director
Avra Sidiropoulou is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Theatre at the Open University of Cyprus and director. She has a rich artistic and academic activity, with international productions and theater seminars, lectures and workshops in various parts of the world. She has authored two monographs on the theory, methodology and practice of directing: Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) and Directions for Directing. Theatre and Method (Routledge 2019). In parallel, she edited the international volume Staging 21st-Century Tragedies. Theatre, Politics and Global Crisis (Routledge 2022), and co-edited Adapting Greek Tragedy. Contemporary Contexts for Ancient Texts (Cambridge University Press 2021).
She has won a scholarship from the Japan Foundation (University of Tokyo), she was a Visiting Research Fellow at Columbia University, MIT, CUNY / Martin E. Segal Theater Center, New York, Freie (Berlin), Surrey, Leeds and Queen Mary (UK). Most recently, she directed Machinal at the Cyprus Theater Company and Enter Hamlet (her own text) at the Shakespeare Fringe Festival in Verona, Italy. In 2020 she was nominated for the Gilder / Coigney International Theater Award by the League of Professional Theater Women (USA). She also directs the Theater Company Persona.
We are particularly honored by her participation in the advisory board of Homo Ludens, as she has a valuable guiding role, offering to our ecosystem her deep knowledge and experience in directing and the dramaturgy of performing actions.
