Theatre Director / Lighting Designer / Music Director / Creative Director / Creative Producer

Born in Cyprus in 1984, Stephanos Droussiotis is a theatre director, a lighting designer, a music director and a creative producer based in Athens, Greece. He studied piano performance at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main and Theatre Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His long lasting collaboration with the Greek director Dimitris Papaioannou started in 2009 and since then he has worked closely and continuously next to the Greek director, creating the music, the lighting design and collaborating on the dramaturgical structure of his most recent works to date. His work includes a collaboration with the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, for which he has created the music and lighting of the work ‘Since She’ in 2017 as well as a commission to conceive, curate and initiate an annual three-month theatre festival about the post-dramatic theatre for the Cyprus Theatre Organisation (2017). Droussiotis was also a core creative member of the Baku 2015 European Games Opening Ceremony, for which he has created the music script recorded by Teodor Curentzis and MusicAeterna as well as the music supervisor of the 48th UAE National Day Celebration in Abu Dhabi recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (2019). As a lighting designer and music arranger, his work in Papaiaonnou’s ‘The Great Tamer’ and ‘Transverse Orientation’ is currently being presented on the most major theaters across the globe including Saddler’s Wells (UK) Theatre de la Ville (FR), BAM (USA) and Festival d’ Avignon (FR) and many more.