GEORGE KIMOULIS

George Kimoulis. Director, actor, and translator. He has born in Athens, Greece in 1956. He graduated from Drama School "Veakis" in 1977. In 1986 he established his own theatre company the "Contemporary Theatre of Athens". In 1996 he founded a Drama School which operates under the supervision of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. In 1999 he was Artistic Director of the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Patras. He is a member of the Greek Actors Union where he has previously served as vice president. He is also a member of the Greek Playwrites Guild. He has directed and played for the theatre Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus, Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone by Sophocles, Orestes, Medea, Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides, Plutus, Thesmophotazousai by Aristophanes, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Richard the third, Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Platonov, Ivanov, Seagull, Uncle Vanya by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, John Gabriel Borkman, Master Builder Solness by Henrik Ibsen, Miss Julie, Father, Dance of Death by August Strindberg. He has appeared in many films and TV series in Greek Television. Award for the Best Actor in the Salonica Film Festival for the film URGE FOR LIFE, National Award of Best Actor in Cinema for the film LIVING DANGEROUSLY, Critics' Award of Best Actor in Theatre for the play POOR MURDERER by P. Kohout, First award of Best Actor in theatre for the period 1996-1998. Audience Choice Award for the play SLEUTH, Lifetime Achievement Award in New York City Greek Film Festival, at Friars Club. "The Gull" is his first movie as director.

website: https://www.george-kimoulis.gr