Andreas Andreou is a US-based theatre and film director and writer from Athens,
Greece. His work explores the extremities of reality through explosive, sardonic, and political explorations of our humanity.
Andreas graduated from King’s College London, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he was awarded the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize for Directing. His directing work, showcased in several countries, includes the English-language premieres of Utopia by Mikhail Durnenkov and Apologiae 4 & 5 by Academy Award Nominee Efthimis Filippou; the Romanian premiere of Far Away by Caryl Churchill, and the Greek-language premiere of An Oak Tree by Tim Crouch. In 2022, Andreas wrote and directed his first short film, By Heart, adapted from the stage play D.D.D. by Dimitris Dimitriadis. While at Yale, he also directed Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Coriolanus, Caryl Churchill’s Lovesick, and new works by Emily Breeze, Matthew Chong, and Andrew Rincón. His own plays, My Death Etc. and M.A.Z.I., have represented the National Theatre of Greece internationally under the auspices of the Union des Théâtres de l'Europe (UTE).
Between 2017 and 2020, Andreas worked on several projects with the German theatre group Rimini Protokoll at major European institutions, including Haus der Kulturen der Welt, GRIPS-Theatre Berlin, Onassis Stegi, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Residenztheater München, and Schauspielhaus Zürich. In 2023, he collaborated with Robert Wilson on his productions of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women and Jarry/Miró’s UBU at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus and The Watermill Center, respectively. He also served as The Watermill Center Summer Program Assistant that same year.
In and out of school, Andreas has attended directing seminars with Dima Krymov, Thomas Ostermeier, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Ian Rickson, Lyndsey Turner, et.al. He has also trained under Theodoros Terzopoulos and Savvas Stroumpos in the internationally recognized, intensely physical method of the Attis Theatre.
Andreas graduated from King’s College London, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he was awarded the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize for Directing. His directing work, showcased in several countries, includes the English-language premieres of Utopia by Mikhail Durnenkov and Apologiae 4 & 5 by Academy Award Nominee Efthimis Filippou; the Romanian premiere of Far Away by Caryl Churchill, and the Greek-language premiere of An Oak Tree by Tim Crouch. In 2022, Andreas wrote and directed his first short film, By Heart, adapted from the stage play D.D.D. by Dimitris Dimitriadis. While at Yale, he also directed Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Coriolanus, Caryl Churchill’s Lovesick, and new works by Emily Breeze, Matthew Chong, and Andrew Rincón. His own plays, My Death Etc. and M.A.Z.I., have represented the National Theatre of Greece internationally under the auspices of the Union des Théâtres de l'Europe (UTE).
Between 2017 and 2020, Andreas worked on several projects with the German theatre group Rimini Protokoll at major European institutions, including Haus der Kulturen der Welt, GRIPS-Theatre Berlin, Onassis Stegi, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Residenztheater München, and Schauspielhaus Zürich. In 2023, he collaborated with Robert Wilson on his productions of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women and Jarry/Miró’s UBU at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus and The Watermill Center, respectively. He also served as The Watermill Center Summer Program Assistant that same year.
In and out of school, Andreas has attended directing seminars with Dima Krymov, Thomas Ostermeier, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Ian Rickson, Lyndsey Turner, et.al. He has also trained under Theodoros Terzopoulos and Savvas Stroumpos in the internationally recognized, intensely physical method of the Attis Theatre.
Theatre
2026 What Rough Beast
2026 Lovesick
2025 Utopia
2025 The Tragedy of Coriolanus
2025 Apologiae 4 & 5
2024 Far Away
2023 An Oak Tree2
2022 Nineteen Twenty-Two
2022 The Abattoir of Love
2019 A Number
2017 Diagonally [Reading]
2017 M.A.Z.I.
2017 An Oak Tree
2016 My Death Etc.
2015 Lessness
2013 In Broad Daylight
Film
2022 By Heart
2026 What Rough Beast
2026 Lovesick
2025 Utopia
2025 The Tragedy of Coriolanus
2025 Apologiae 4 & 5
2024 Far Away
2023 An Oak Tree2
2022 Nineteen Twenty-Two
2022 The Abattoir of Love
2019 A Number
2017 Diagonally [Reading]
2017 M.A.Z.I.
2017 An Oak Tree
2016 My Death Etc.
2015 Lessness
2013 In Broad Daylight
Film
2022 By Heart