Berlin Fellowship 2018 — Performing Arts

Vita

Kleopatra Markou is an actress and singer. She studied drama (practice and theory) at the Academy of Fine Arts at Peloponnese University and acting at the Modern Times drama school in Athens. She works in theatre and cinema, at the National Theatre of Greece in Athens and at independent theatre companies and festivals in Greece, Germany and Switzerland.

Awards, Fellowships, Grants

2018

Fellowship, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

2015

Scholarship for the 51th International Forum Theatertreffen in Berlin

Theatre Performances (selection)

2018

Rotterdam by Jon Brittain, role: Alice, directed by Marios Panagiotou, Beton 7 Theater

2017–18

The Stranger by Albert Camus, role: Marie, narrator Meursault, directed by Dimitris

Tsiamis, Apo Michanis Theater

2017

Io, written and directed by Laura L. Tesman (NY), based on Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, role: Oistros, ancient Theater of Philippoi

2016

Get to know Kassandra – an international collaboration created by and co-acted with Jessica Glause, Beatrix Simko, Aleksandra Pavlovic, role: Kassandra, selected to participate at the Rodeo Festival Munich, Hoch X

2016

ByeByeBabel created by and co-acted with Peng!Palast, a collaboration with the Swiss-German theatre group, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Winterthur Theatre am Gleis, Theater Chur, Ballhaus Ost

2016

Kamouzas descends to Fournoi by M. Papaioannou, role: White, directed by Maria Aiginitou, National Theatre of Greece

2014–15

Brothers Karamazov –a meeting, the experience of a reading, based on F. Dostoyevsky's novel, role: Grushenka, directed by Ilias Kounelas, Athens Festival 2014

2013

Nourian's Celebration by Volker Ludwig, role: Aise, directed by Vassilis Koukalani and Pantelis Dentakis, on tour

2012–13

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll, role: Katharina Blum, directed by Eleana Tsichli ,Bios Cimemateque

2010

Angela by Petros Sevastikoglou, role: Angela. directed by Dimitris Bitos, Sfendoni Theater

Films

2014

Highway to Hellas, role: Maria, directed by Aron Lehmann

2013

Pillow, role: Sam, directed by Konstantinos Kakogiannis

Workshops

with Patrick Wengenroth – Rainer Werner Fassbinder Κeine Utopie ist eine

with Yeal Ronen – Common Ground

with Michael Marmarinos – Physical inhibitions and bioenergetic scream

with Simos Kakalas – The Mask in nude comedies

with Periklis Moustakis – Electra by Sophocles

with Akillas Karazisis – The Persians by Aeschylus