Kostadis
Mizaras

Fundamental research topics for the period 2026-2027 and main areas of work:

• Research using multidisciplinary practices in the creation of collective projects and teams between different countries, languages, and social groups.
• Translation and multiple languages: how do languages coexist on stage? Is there a place for instant translation during performances? The rhythm and musicality of different languages, how translation/interpretation becomes a common space between artistic practices?
• Work on recurring themes between several texts in the staging of Wallace Shawn’s “Fever.” Current residency to stage Bernard Pepperlin, a combination of narration and shadow theater with K. White (Canadian puppeteer), adaptation of the book Bernard Pepperlin by Cara Hoffman (USA).

ACTOR – PUPPETEER PERFORMANCES

“L’improbable démesurée” DJ set & large-scale puppet performances, Closing Night of Impertinence in Sète, collaboration with Cie Futur Immoral and “Radio Fuoco” A choreographic and sound performance by the artists of La Bulle Bleue and Cie Futur Immoral at the Opera of Montpellier 2025.

“Les lectures électriques” (Electric Readings), Centre Pompidou / Hors-Pistes Festival and BPI. France. Performance wearing headphones, French-Greek-Arabic corpus, 2018, French Institute of Athens / Nuit de l’esthétique (Night of Aesthetics), French-Greek corpus, collaboration with Laurie Bellanca (kom.post) and Céline Pévrier (sun/sun) 2017

“Iks and the Machine,” various venues in Athens, Patras, and Ioannina. Greece, shadow poetry performance in collaboration with Birdbone Theater (Canada), 2017.

“Monobloc,” Municipality of Vironas and Kaisariani, Athens. Greece, object manipulation performance, in collaboration with Cie November 2015

“What’s valuable?” Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece, sung performance about what is valuable in life and art 2016.

“Terra & Freedom,” Athens School of Fine Arts. Greece, outdoor dance performance with the Belleville Collective dance company, 2012.

Virtual Reality Theater

“Jephte” opera by G. Carissimi, at Opera Rara in Krakow, VR show 2024-5

“The Books of Jacob” by Olga Tokarczuk, a quantum VR show, the story of Jacob Frank comes to life simultaneously in seven locations around the world, in a synchronized performance taking place in New York (La MaMa ETC), Serbia, Poland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Greece 2024

“Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley, a theatrical research on simultaneous performances in a shared virtual reality (VR) space and four different physical spaces. Directed by K. Garbaczewski (in Poland) and C. Badeka (at the Lithografion Theater, Patras, Greece) 2023

THEATER – PERFORMANCES (recent)

“Confess” Noiti Grammi Theater Company 2024

“Intérieur” by Maurice Maeterlinck P.Giziotis 2023-4

“Scarlet Sails” by Grin Alexander D.Rousou 2023

“Toku” by Fly Theatre, puppet show for adults

“C’est la goutte d’eau” (The Drop of Water), three countries: France, Italy, Greece Open-air theater performance on a sailboat, inspired by a residency on the refugee rescue ship Aquarius, about the flow of refugees in the Mediterranean 2018.

Greek Television: collaboration as an actor, directors: G.Karantinakis, E. Hronopoulou, E.

Anagnostopoulos, K. Lihnaras.

Greek Cinema: collaboration as an actor, directors: L.Rikaki, G.Bougioukas, Ch. Matzari,

Ch. Dimas, M.Sotiriou, K.Pilavios.

DIRECTOR

Théâtre Act – Patra, “Searching Papadiamantis,” an experimental exploration of the works of A. Papadiamantis, performed through a combination of aerial acrobatics and theater, 2017

Founding member and puppeteer of the puppet theater company L’œil d’Ailleurs, founded in Montpellier, France, in 2025.

Founding member and puppeteer of Ftouxelefteria, a puppet theater company, 2006–2015

Partner in theater companies and puppet theater companies: Kokou Mouklo, Ftera tou Muthou, Karabola, Plagones and Polis, collaborator with Circus Group X-Saltibagos – Etheras Space / Theater Lithografion, Patras – since 2015, circus and puppet theater company and multidisciplinary artistic creation space, founding member of M55 projects, photographic art space and artistic residency, Athens, Greece 2007. Founding member of the network for performing arts for children Assitej Greece.

TEACHING AND WORKSHOPS

Group leader – Children Without Nightmares, puppet theater, music, and improvisation workshop with a mixed group of refugee children (Syria) and Greek children (a program that was carried out three times in three different locations: Livadeia 2019, Patra 2022, Ikaria 2025).

Workshop leader – Music Village, research on movement and music, based on improvisation. Speaker at the Art convention, a window of light for the Association for Theater and Education in Greece.

PUBLICATIONS

Actor, puppet, and avatar: the phantasmagorical triad. Publication (in collaboration with Rébecca Pierrot) on the relationship, kinship, even identity, between theatrical puppets and the immaterial avatars of the virtual world in the UNIMA USA magazine, under the general theme AI, ROBOTS, AND AVATARS, FALL/WINTER ISSUE NO. 58 2025

Immersive audio show / EN ACTE(S) Festival. Publication of a book on the theme of madness and politics. Plays, literary texts, poetry… echoing current events, 2018.

Journalist and press contributor, several articles and reports for the Greek press: To allo Vima, Kathimerini, Ta Nea, Epsilon, Elefterotipia, Geotropio, Metro, Marie-Claire, Close Up, Kosmodromio, The Press Project, The Anarchist Review of Books, etc.

Author of the travel guide Bulgaria – Eastern Rumelia, Infognomon Publications

TRAINING

Workshops

La Chartreuse, Center for Contemporary Writing, Villeneuve-lez-Avignon Invited to the European theater writing studio meeting: 13 French and European playwrights examine “theater and events.”

Puppet theater with Stathis Markopoulos (Ayiousayia),

Apnea in motion with E. Duke, Improvisation

Commedia dell’Arte with Camillo Bentacor.

Mime with A. Krali.

UNIVERSITY DEGREES

Theater Studies – Diomidis Fotiadis Theater School.

Human Resources – American College of Greece.

LANGUAGES, working and performance languages: Greek, English, and French.

 

Address: Athens, Greece
Email: kostadis.mizaras@gmail.com
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