Theodoros Terzopoulos

Theodoros Terzopoulos (Θεόδωρος Τερζόπουλος; born 1947) is a Greek theatre director.

Biography
Terzopoulos was born in 1947 in Makrygialos, Pieria, descending from a large farming family of Pontic origin.

He initially studied at the drama school of K. Michaelides in Athens (1965–67) and then at the Berliner Ensemble in East Berlin (1972–76). During his studies in East Germany he was significantly influenced by Heiner Müller.

Returning to Greece, he worked first in Thessaloniki, and then from 1978 with the National Theatre of Northern Greece, in which he directed four plays, and was the director of its associated drama school from 1981 to 1983. In 1985 he became director at the festival of ancient drama at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi. In the same year, he founded the theatre group Attis, with which he presented Euripides' The Bacchae in Delphi in 1986, gaining over the years international fame and recognition for his radical and pioneering direction. In 1993 he founded the Theatre Olympics, of which he also assumed the presidency.

During his career, he has directed numerous ancient Greek tragedies, as well as modern Greek and European pays, in festivals and theatres around the world, including a revival of The Bacchae at the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre in 2015. He has also received various awards. In 2015 he published the book Η Επιστροφή του Διόνυσου ('The Return of Dionysus'), which has been translated into several languages.