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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Theodoros Terzopoulos was born in the village of Makrygialos, in the Pieria area of Northern Greece. He attended K. Michailidis' Drama School during 1965-1967 in Athens studying under George Sevastikoglou, Leonidas Trivisas and Kostis Michailidis. During 1972-1976 he studied at the Berliner Ensemble instructed by Heiner Müller, Manfred Wekwerth, Ruth Berghaus and Ekkehart Schall.
From 1981 to 1983 he was Director of the State Theatre of Northern Greece Drama School.
From 1985 to 1987 he was the artistic director of the Greek Drama International Meetings organized in Delphi by the European Cultural Center of Delphi. There he invited renowned personalities of the international theatre scene, among them Heiner Müller, Tadashi Suzuki, Robert Wilson, Peter Hall, Andrei Serban, Wole Soyinka, Min Tanaka, Andrzej Wajda.
He created the ATTIS theatre group in 1986.
Since 1990 he is a founding member of the International Institute of the Mediterranean Theatre comprising 22 Mediterranean countries.
As of 1991 he is President of the International Institute of the Mediterranean Theatre in Greece holding a series of events, such as the International Festival titled "Violence and Peace in the Mediterranean Theatre" in Patra (1991), seminars on theatrical education, symposia and other events related to the theatre.
Since 1993 he is the Chairman of the International Committee of the Theatre Olympics. In 1995 he was the artistic director of the 1st Theatre Olympics at Delphi featuring performances by significant artists, such as Yuri Liubimov, Anatoli Vassiliev, Ala Demidova, Robert Wilson, Tadashi Suzuki, Nuria Espert and others.
In 1999 he was the Chairman of the 2nd Theatre Olympics held in Shizuoka, Japan. He retains the position of Chairman of the Theatre Olympics to be held in Moscow in 2001.