DIRECTING DEPARTMENT

Department of Directing

Since the 2018-2019 academic year, the Drama School has established, alongside the Acting Department, the Directing Department, with the aim of professional training and artistic awareness of future directors. It is an important achievement of the National Theatre, which satisfied a decades-old request, as the decision to create a Directing Department had been taken in the 1950s.

The Directing Department was created on the initiative of the director of the National Theatre, Stathis Livathinos, who wanted to pass on his experience from the Directing Department of the State Theatre Institute of Moscow. The first teachers of the school were Stathis Livathinos and, as a visiting professor, the English director Andrew Wisniewski (professor of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art).

The courses are divided into the following sections:

Directing – acting: Classes are taught by professional directors and actors.

Theoretical courses: Dramatology, Dramaturgy, History of Theatre, History of Modern Greek Literature, History and Practice of Cinema, History of Direction, Theory of Music.

Technical courses: Dance, Expressive Body Movement, Traditional Dances, Kung Fu, Stage Combat, Speech Training/Stage Speech, Theatrical Singing – Vocals, Scenography – Costume Design – Mask, Audio Dramaturgy, Score Reading, Lighting.