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Anestis Ischnopoulos

Anestis is a Thessalonicean actor, musical theater performer & ‘artivist’. He’s one of those ‘everything is art’ social justice warriors you probably love or hate. Reach out to him at anestisischnopoulos@gmail.com or on instagram at @anestis9anestis

He trained in the dramatic arts at the Rose Bruford College of Speech & Drama in London & has a MFA in Musical Theater from the Athenaeum ‘Maria Callas’ Conservatoire of Athens, but has also trained with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute and the Meisner Technique Athens Studio. He speaks Greek, English, Italian, Spanish, German, along with some French & High Valyrian. He’s a baritenor, swordsman, rugby player, rollerskater, high jump champion, while he also used to work as a writer with a degree in Journalism & Communications from the Aristotelian University, dabbles in dramatherapy and sometimes moonlights as an aspiring stand-up comedian dressed as a superhero.

Highlights of his stage career include his time with the Living Theater troupe, the Al Límite collective & the Institute for the Experimental Arts working on the experimental performance ‘Electric Awakening’, his showstealing role as the March Hare in a production of Alice Through The Looking-Glass and his starring role as the titular tragic character in ‘Medea’, a curated anthology of ancient Greek tragicomedic plays by Koilon Productions. Small screen highlights include TV shows like ‘Erotas Fygas’, ‘Auti I Nixta Menei’ and BBC’s ‘Gregg Wallace’s Fun Weekend Getaways’, while silver screen credits feature numerous short films like the critically acclaimed & Hellenic Film Academy Awards-shortlisted ‘Farewell’ by Dionysis Giakoumis and features like the dystopian sci-fi ‘Memory Reloaded’ and Lifetime TV’s mystery thriller ‘My Father’s Murder in Greece’ by Colin Theys and Hollyware Productions.