Simos Kakalas

Biography

Simos Kakalas (Greek: Σίμος Κακάλας) was born in Thessaloniki in 1973 and graduated from the Drama School of the State Theatre of Northern Greece (NTNG), where he worked from 2000 to 2004 as an actor and assistant director. In 1996, he was a founding member of the theatre organization “Nees Morfes”, where he worked mainly as an actor. In 2003, he founded and directed the Theatre Company “Choros”, through which he conducted research and directed his main projects until 2017. With both groups, he defended a theatre of poor means and physicality, poetic discourse and interaction. Since then, he …