Evdokimos Tsolakidis, Greece 2025
He was born in Thessaloniki in 1962. He studied at the Medical School of the University of Rome. He was awarded his BFA degree of the Drama School of the National Theatre of Northern Greece with honours. He continued his studies in drama, acting and directing in New York City (H.B. Studio) funded by the U.S.A. Government (Fulbright Foundation). While in NYC he attended classes as an auditor at the Actors Studio. In 2013 he graduated from the Greek Open University BA (Humanitarian Studies, European Culture). In 2016 he got his Master degree from the Open University of Cyprus MA (Theatre Studies: Acting-Directing).
He has worked as an actor in many troupes, took part in film and television productions and directed plays in Greece and abroad. He is the founder and the Artistic Director of Theatre of Changes (http://www.toc.gr, founded in 1998) where he directs plays and teaches to this day.
He has taught in many acting schools and drama departments of universities as well as in different parts of Greece. Every year since 2005, he organizes ''In.Fo.Ma.T.''(International Festival of Making Theatre), an international meeting of theatre makers from around the world. He has published books on acting and improvisation as well as theatrical plays that have been produced in Greece and abroad. He speaks English, Italian and French. He has travelled to almost all the length and breadth of the planet and in the summer of 2008, he made the round of the world in a month, leaving to the east and returning from the west!
Status games for actors and directors
This workshop focuses on the application of basic acting exercises that are designed to rid the actor of self-consciousness and use “status” as a tool to uncover and discover the self, explore and nurture one's individuality, and gain a groundwork of acting craft. Exercises designed for the actor to give him/her control and allow him/her to work correctly with ease and assurance so as to recreate human behavior, and to impart a system that gives the actor verbal, physical and emotional freedom. Emphasis on relaxation, sensory awareness, emotional resources, imaginative creativity, and belief in the given circumstances. The goal: learning to use the self fully to achieve truthful moment-to-moment behavior by raising or lowering our status or trying to influence the status of others.The students are guided to find their own truth when exploring the circumstances of the text and the character they are playing. By using their own experience and imagination they will be led to make specific choices, bringing them to a fully responsive and active life working on stage or in film.
Participants are asked to learn by heart 5-6 lines from a monologue they choose and to wear loose comfortable clothing.
