A Lighting Designer and Film Director, member of the board of CYCSTAT (OISTAT Cyprus), member of the board of the University of Cyprus Culture Center.<\/p>\n
1993-1996: studied at the Higher Cinema and Television School of Lykourgos Stavrakou in Athens, Greece.
2002-2007: studied at the Russian State Institute of Cinema and Theatre (VGIK), Moscow, Russia.<\/p>\n
He has worked at \u201cSatiriko Theater\u201d (1990-92, 1995) and \u201cSkala Theater\u201d (1996) as a Lighting Technician. Since 1997, he has worked as a Lighting Technician in the Theatrical Organization of Cyprus. From 2005 to the present, he has been working as the Chief Lighting Technician at the Theatrical Organization of Cyprus.<\/p>\n
In 1997 he represented Cyprus in the Biennale of Young Artists in Torino, Italy, with the photographic work \u201cMilo milo milo\u201d.<\/p>\n
He designed more than 150 lighting designs<\/strong> for theatre plays.<\/p>\n He produced and directed the following short films:<\/p>\n In 2007, the Theatrical Organization of Cyprus awarded him for his Lighting Design in the play \u201cDiary of a Madman\u201d by Nikolai Gogol.<\/p>\n In 2011, his work in lighting for the play \u201cFesten\u201d was exhibited in Prague Quadrennial as part of the Cyprus Exhibition.<\/p>\n In 2012, he was selected to present his work as an international guest at the United States Institute of Theatrical Technologies\u2019 annual conference.<\/p>\n In 2013 he led a workshop at the World Stage Design 2013 in Cardiff, UK: a seminar about the lighting in a low-budget site-specific theatre production \u201cHamlet in 48 hours\u201d.<\/p>\n In 2015 he represented Cyprus at the Prague Quadrennial with the scenographer Elena Katsouri as a curator and co-designer of the Cyprus exhibition and as a lighting designer for the THOC theatre productions \u201cKalikantzar and Co\u201d (2011) and \u201cBirds\u201d (2014). The Cypriot Exposition was awarded the third prize in the Children\u2019s section.<\/p>\n In 2017 he received a Commendation from the Greek Screenwriters Association for the feature film script \u201cIn & Out\u201d.<\/p>\n He was selected and presented his lighting work for the play \u201cConstellations\u201d by Nick Payne at the World Stage Design Exhibition WSD2017 in Taipei, Taiwan.<\/p>\n He won the second World Lighting Design Award<\/strong> for his work on the ancient tragedy \u201cPersians\u201d by Aeschylus at the World Stage Design Exhibition WSD2022 in Calgary<\/strong>, Canada.<\/p>\n Interview<\/strong><\/p>\n\n