Yannis Simonides

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Born in Istanbul and raised in Athens, he is a graduate of Yale University and Yale School of Drama.
He has served as professor and chair of Undergraduate Drama at New York University’s School of the Arts (NYU), director of GOTelecom Productions, director of Hellenic Public Radio in New York, and founding director of the Greek Theatre of New York (ellinikotheatro.org ).
He has been awarded an Emmy by the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and has been named Ambassador of Hellenism by the city of Athens for his lifelong service to Greek arts and letters worldwide. Current projects are Socrates Now, the Maori-Bacchae in New Zealand, the dramatization of Plato’s Republic, the Makriyannis Memoirs and the international contemporary venture Theater of Peace.

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Crociera nel Mediterraneo

Αn ode to Greek summer

My name is Yannis Simonides and I am 69 years old. I was born in Istanbul, I grew up in Athens and I have been living and working in both Greece and the USA since 1965.