Andreas Andreou is a theatre and film director and writer from Athens, Greece. Through non-realistic storytelling that explodes the boundaries between reality and fiction, memory and experience, dream and wakefulness, his work explores the extremities of our seemingly normal lives.

Andreas has lived, worked and studied in the UK, the US, and continental Europe. He is currently a third-year M.F.A. candidate in Theatre Directing at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. His directing work, showcased in several countries, includes the English-language premieres of Utopia by Mikhail Durnenkov, Apologiae 4 & 5 by 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, as well as new works by Emily Breeze, Matthew Chong, and Andrew Rincón. His own plays My Death Etc. and M.A.Z.I. have been presented internationally by the National Theatre of Greece 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 masterclasses with Dima Krymov, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Thomas Ostermeier, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Ian Rickson, Patrick Marber, Lyndsey Turner, Shi-Zheng Chen, Bethany Caputo, and others.

Theatre

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
2017    M.A.Z.I.
2017    An Oak Tree
2016    My Death Etc.
2015    Lessness
2013    In Broad Daylight

Film

2022    By Heart
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