Fundamental research topics
and main areas of work

Konstantinos Mizaras (Kostadis) is an actor, puppeteer, director, author and a cook

A founding member of the M55 photography space in Athens since 2004, Assitej Greece since 2025, and the puppet theater and storytelling company “ftouxelefteria” from 2006 to 2018, he has been collaborating for twenty years with numerous international companies, including Fly Theater with “Toku,” a puppet show for adults, Birdbone Theater in Canada, Bread and Puppets in the USA, etc.

Alongside Laurie Bellanca (L’Opératrice) and Céline Pévrier (sun/sun), he collaborates on the trilingual performance “Les lectures électriques” in events at the Centre Pompidou / Festival Hors-Pistes, the BPI, the French Institute in Athens / Nuit de l’esthétique. He pays close attention to musicality, the different rhythms of languages, and their translations. The coexistence of languages on stage is a major focus of his research. Of Greek origin, he writes, speaks, and performs fluently in French, English, and Greek.

Since 2023, he has been part of a research group on virtual reality (VR) Dream Adoption Society. He collaborated on Aldous Huxley’s play Brave New World and Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob, a quantum VR show in which 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. He performed G. Carissimi’s “Jephté” at the Krakow Opera, paving the way for VR research, stage work, and object manipulation.

He constantly moves back and forth between writing, research, and translating languages and worlds.

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).