Join us on April 21, 2022 for a post show discussion about the Greek Revolution through the lens of Filiki Eteria. Professor Nicholas Alexious and Director Ioli Andreadi will engage in a laid back conversation. Please remain in the theater following the evening’s performance.

Panelists

Nicholas Alexious
Nicholas Alexiou was born in Volos, Greece, in 1959.  He studied economics in Athens and in the mid-1980 he moved to New York for graduate studies in Sociology. He has taught in the Department of Sociology at Queens College, CUNY, since 1990, and he has received the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.  His fields of interest are social and political sociology, ethnic studies and research.  He has established the first Archive – Library - Museum, for the Greeks of New York, and he is the Director of Research of the Hellenic American Project (HAP), at Queens College. He is the author of six books of poetry, and many of his poems have been published in Greek and American journals and anthologies.  He is a member of the Greek Authors Association, Greece, and the Greek American Writers Guild Association, NY.

Ioli Andreadi
Ioli Andreadi, is a theatre and performance director, playwright, Dr. King’s College London. From 2003 has worked in Greece and abroad (UK, New York, Berlin, Rome). She studied Directing at RADA in 2007-08. Her PhD in Theatre, Performance and Ritual at King’s College London was conducted with the support of the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation and was subsequently published in English in 2020 by Kapa Publishing House under the title: Anastenaria: Ritual, Theatre, Performance; An Experiential Study. She is a 2010/11 Fulbright Artist/Arts Scholar, having conducted her research on musical theatre and ancient tragedy in NY (NYMF). She is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab as a Stavros Niarchos Foundation grantee. Her ongoing postdoctoral research on Antonin Artaud and Neuroscience (2015-today) is soon to be published. She teaches Performance: Theory and Practice (her book Performance: Theory and Practice; Directing, Philosophy and Culture was published in 2020) as a Guest Lecturer at Universities in Greece and abroad (University of Athens, University of Cyprus, King’s College London, Brooklyn College CUNY, University of Greenwich UK). With Aris Asproulis, she has co-authored 13 theatrical texts (original and adaptations) from 2015 until today, which have been staged in Greece, New York and London, directed by her and which have received excellent reviews. They specialize in creating original theatrical works based on the study of real events, through the research of primary archival material, documents and publications, interviews, books, and field work. They also share a deep interest in the Classics (literature, theatre, art), having adapted for the stage a three-hour version of Tolstoy’s War and Peace and a two-hour version of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Their work also include three new plays on the life and work of Antonin Artaud: Artaud/Van Gogh, The Cenci Family and Bone. All of their plays have been published by Kapa Publishing House.