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ELIAS MALANDRIS

Elias Malandris was born in Athens and he is originated from Kassos island. He studied Theatre at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatory. He completed  Theatre Studies and Film and Television Studies at New York University and is now studying humanities / Greek and European culture at the Department of Greek Studies at  the Open University of Patras. Since 1987 he works in radio and television. He has collaborated with a number of Greek television channels  ERT (Hellenic Radio TV) ANT-1, ALFA, SKAI and with the channel Bloomberg in New York. He has directed more than 1000 variety programs and from 1992-2001 he was presenting the TV show Estin oun  on the revival of ancient Greek drama on channel Seven-X and from 2008 until today in Vouli Tv, (the channel of the House of the Parliament). The series of Test: A Fourth Dimension that was a dramatization of the works of the poet Yannis Ritsos which was honored by the Department of Modern Greek Studies at the Complutance University of Madrid and it is taught at the courses there.. He had presented some appreciable TV emissions that were tributes to the history of the Greek National Theatre, Theatre of Art, of Amphitheatro and of the Theatrical Organisation of Cyprus. He also presented at the channels Seven-X and the Channel of the House of Greek Parliament the series called The Streets of the archangel about the life and art of the composer Mikis Theodorakis. He has made three short films: The Water, The Songs of Agony and The Twelve Words of the Gypsy. In 2000 he completed and presented a documentary about the ancient customs in Thrace under the title of Tsaousli. In 2004 he presented the musical TV program The sea tells me a lot when it echoes ... In 1997, in collaboration with the Euro Info Media and the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, he presented and directed two dramatic works of the poet Angelos Sikelianos The Last Orphic Dithyramvos and Daedalus in Crete in a first world performance at the Ancient Theatre of Delphi with the participation of  Mario Frangoulis, Christos Tsangas, Stratos Tzortzoglou, Dina Ritsou, Lambros Tsangas and Olga Tournaki. The music was by Jiannis Markopoulos and the scenography by Denny Vachlioti. From 1998 he travelled around the world with the musical The Liturgy of Orpheus (Orpheus ‘ Ritual) with the music of Giannis Markopoulos. He had directed performances in the most of the Ancient Greek and Roman theatres. In 2000 he directed two performances Re-birth at Herodium (Herodes Atticus Roman Theatre under Acropolis) and The Song of Achilles in the theatre Brachon.(Theatre of the Rocks) The summer of 2001 he presented at the Herodium the 24 Pyrrhic dances with Konstantinos Papadimitriou and the Symphony Orchestra of ERT ( Hellenic Radio TV) and completed his first long  film entitled The Yusuri with the participation of Turkish actor Amet Tzorta, V. Bisbikis, A. Papadimitriou, T. Manesi and Dina Ritsou with the music of Stavros Xarchakos and with the  traditional band Palaiina Schefferia  which is a metaphor of the 'Words of the ship-head "of the novelist Andreas Karkavitsas. In 2002 he presented The Liturgy of Orpheus and The Paper Dreams at the Athens Concert Hall Megaron with Mario Frangoulis and Deborah Mayers, and The Lightwell with the actress Anna Synodinou at the theatre Brettania in Athens. In 2003 he presented The Muddy Waters of the poet Nikos Kavvadias in Athens Concert Hall, Megaron with numerous famous Greek artists such as Demetra Galani, Mariza Koch, Nena Venetsanou, Marios Frangoulis, Gerasimos Andreatos and Jiannis Koutras which was a production of The Company of Friends of the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, starting then a collaboration of almost a decade when presidents of the Company were the ladies A. Ntaifa and E. Meleti. In the same summer he presented Piraeus and the sea in Veakio Open Theatre of Pireus with Stelios Dionysiou, Memos Begnis Sofia Michaelides, Andreas Smirnakis, the participation of Marios Frangoulis choreographed by John Giaple. Also "The Liturgy of Orpheus" at the archaeological site of the Tomb in the Marathon with Zachos Terzakis and Kostas Kazakos and also in the Ancient Theatres of Ephesus and of Delphi. In 2004 he published the study Achilleis which is a reconstruction of the lost Aeschylus trilogy, Myrmidones, Nereides, Phrygians and was presented by the Greek festival and the Cyprus Theatre Organisation at Epidaurus ancient theatre in the summer of 2004 with the collaboration of Despina Bebedeli, Jenny Gaitanopoulou, Stelios Kafkaridis, Marios Frangoulis, rising protests by Greek philologists but he was vastly praised by the international press and divided the critics. In 2004 he published the book Mikis Theodorakis with DVD edited by Elias Malandris, project produced by FM records. In 2005 he directed the play Old Neighbourhood with Tanya Tsanaklidou and Mario Frangoulis, with the participations of John Tsimitselis, Sia Koskina and Fotini Darra at the Veakio Open Theatre of Piraeus. In 2006 he presented at Herodium the musical project dedicated to the Nobelist poet Odysseus Elytis When I speak about the sun with Mario Frangoulis, Fotini Darra and Manolis Lidakis on the songs and Despina Bebedeli with Grigoris Valtinos reciting the Nobel prized poem Axion Esti. During the winter he presented two projects at the Second and the Third Public radio programs, first The Siege of Leningrad with the actresses Antigone Valakou and Maya Lymperopoulou and secondly the first reading of the reconstructed lost drama of Sophocles Colchis with Tzortzoglou, Koutsaftiki, Mariza, Derebei, Smirnakis. Also a TV tribute to Odysseus Elytis with the actors Niki Triantafyllidi, Titika Nikiforaki, Kostas Messaris, Olga Tournaki and the singer Maria Dimitriadi. In 2007 he presented a tribute to Lorca and its tour around Greece with The Dark Love with Frangoulis, Derebei, Perris, Klironomos and the guest participation of Eleni Peta. He also directed the concerts of Marios Frangoulis worldwide. For seven years he was the artistic director of the festival of Kassos island. In the summer of 2008 he represented Greece in the international festivals of Ephesus (Izmir)  with the reconstruction of Euripides Phaethon directed by Nikos Haralambous and with the actors Mario Frangoulis, Despina Bebedeli, Stelios Kafkaridis and the music of Michalis Christodoulides. He also directed a musical tribute to the god Apollo under the title Dorion Phos (Doreian Light) with the narrators Grigoris Valtinos and Christianna Matzourani and solist Mario Frangoulis, George Perris and Irene Derembei. This was also a political event as Cypriot artists were presented in Turkey for the first time under the special permission of the Prime Minister of Turkey. The show was performed in the ancient Library of Celsus. In 2009, in collaboration with Marios Frangoulis and the Athens Academy they presented a program for world peace that was performed in the same summer at Herodium and in the winter of 2010 in many cities of USA, starting with Boston, under the title The Light of Greece. In the summer of 2010, under the spectrum of the same project, the ancient theatre at Pergamon in Turkey opens for the first time with the tragedy Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound with the participation of great artists such as Antigone Valakou, Jenny Drivala, Apostolis Totsikas, Anna Koutsaftiki, with the original music of Constantine Psachos, choreography by Vassia Angelidou and the collaboration with the Lyceum of Greek Women the later under the direction of Kostas Karamanos and the Spiritual march with the music of Mikis Theodorakis, with George Perris. In 2014 he directed and participated on the theatrical play John Gabriel Borkman, by Henrik Ibsen, with Georgia Anesti, Evaggelia Saravanou, Konstandinos Feredouros, George Poulis. Music by Elias Bogdanos. In 2016 he directed the theatrical play Delikanis, by Manolis Skouloudis at Herodium with a number of 39 actors, such as Maria Tzobanaki, Alexandros Psihramis, Sofia Moutidou, Eleni Peta, Vivian Kontomari, Panos Scouroliakos, Areti ketime, Georgia Velivasaki, Thodoris Voytsikakis, Andreas Smirnakis, Irini Derebei and six new actors for the first appearance  Giannis Grigorakis, Elias Tousounis, Ioannis karellis, Tomas Tzorta, Eleni Karatsoli and  katerina Tousouni, also   80 dancers, and 12 musicians. In 2017 he directed the musical play Axion Esti by Mikis Theodorakis and Odysseus Elytis. In 2018 he directed the medieval play Abraahm’s sacrifice at Herodium, with Despoina Bebedeli, Nikita Tsakirogloy, Grigori Valtino, Lefteri Eleftheriou, Sotiri Fresco, Elia Tousouni and George Naoum. In 2019 he directed Francis God’s Jester by Nikos Kazantzakis with the music of Demetris Papademetriou, with the participation of great performers such us Thodoris Voutsikakis, Babis Velissarios, Veronica Davakis and actors Maria Tzombanaki, Nikos Gelia, Kostas Kazakos, George Partalidis, Chrisanthi Georgandidou,Nikos Mellos, George Giannakis, Nikos Xenos, Dimitrios Meletis, Nikos Kallivokas, Iakinthos Mainas, Stavrianos Kinalopoulos and Vassilis Voutetakis.

In 2005 the fourth book was published with his participation titled Forward Greece's children and in 2014 his fifth book titled Fragments. In 2005 he presents also the TV series called Ihni (Traces) at ERT1 (Hellenic radio TV) in the broadcast Triton hotel 'in collaboration with Jiannis Lignadis at the texts and with the actors Anna Synodinou, Christos Loulis, Memos Begnis,, Dina Ritsou, Anna Koutsaftiki, Olga Tournaki, Christianna Matzourani, Christos Changas, Manos Karatzogiannis, Irene Derebei and others, with the music of Zacharias Spyridakis.

He has often collaborated with newspapers as "Kathimerini” “Imeresia” and "Acropolis" and his articles have been published at "the Political Issues" in the magazine «Passworld» of «Axon Airlines» of which he was had the chief-editor.