Christina Kouloumpi
Director - Actress - Set & Costume Designer
60 designers
57 projects
Born in Athens. She studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Mimis Kontos. A graduate of the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece with distinction. As an actress she has collaborated with the National Theatre of Greece, Greek National Opera, Athens Epidaurus Festival (Odeon of Herodes), Athens Chamber Opera, Municipal and Regional Theatres of Kalamata, Corfu and Roumeli, Foundation of the Hellenic World, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Iros Angelos dance theatre, Giorgos Michailidis’ Open Theatre, many free theatre ensembles and with acclaimed Greek directors. She has starred in Greek television series. Among others, she has also designed sets & costumes for Karmen Rouggeri Children’s Stage, of which she is a founding member. In 2016, 2018 and 2020 she was awarded the Antonis Fokas Prize by the Academy of Corfiot Prizes for the costumes in the theatrical plays Iliad, The birth of the world and…stories of the Olympian gods and The Tsar with the long beard. She is the illustrator of books published by Livanis, Kedros, Patakis, Psychalos, Diaplasi, Psychogios and Karmina. The visual artist Rena Anousi-Helia has been a fundamental inspiration in her career.
Saint-Exupéry’s symbolic fairy tale is full of “treasures”. The challenge was to make clear the profound messages of the play without simplifying them. What interested our creative team, starting from the text, was that the younger ages became acquainted with and loved this masterpiece. Visually, I decided to present the heroes as frivolous, humourous, surreal and to a certain extent exaggerated. I intended the actual loneliness of the text to be reflected in the large space occupied by the characters on stage. Being an actress myself helps in selecting props and costume elements that “shed light” on the truth of theatrical roles. There is a constant internal dialogue that in combination with the appreciation I have for colour creates images resembling tableaux vivants. The responsibility of directing this performance allowed me to bridge aesthetics with all arts supporting it.
Text: Karmen Rouggeri
Direction: Christina Kouloumpi, Karmen Rouggeri
Set & Costume Design: Christina Kouloumpi
Choreography – Lighting Design: Petros Galias
Original Music: Stefanos Korkolis
Video Design: Antonis Delaportas
Photos: Nektarios Kouris
Saint-Exupéry’s symbolic fairy tale is full of “treasures”. The challenge was to make clear the profound messages of the play without simplifying them. What interested our creative team, starting from the text, was that the younger ages became acquainted with and loved this masterpiece. Visually, I decided to present the heroes as frivolous, humourous, surreal and to a certain extent exaggerated. I intended the actual loneliness of the text to be reflected in the large space occupied by the characters on stage. Being an actress myself helps in selecting props and costume elements that “shed light” on the truth of theatrical roles. There is a constant internal dialogue that in combination with the appreciation I have for colour creates images resembling tableaux vivants. The responsibility of directing this performance allowed me to bridge aesthetics with all arts supporting it.
Born in Athens. She studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Mimis Kontos. A graduate of the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece with distinction. As an actress she has collaborated with the National Theatre of Greece, Greek National Opera, Athens Epidaurus Festival (Odeon of Herodes), Athens Chamber Opera, Municipal and Regional Theatres of Kalamata, Corfu and Roumeli, Foundation of the Hellenic World, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Iros Angelos dance theatre, Giorgos Michailidis’ Open Theatre, many free theatre ensembles and with acclaimed Greek directors. She has starred in Greek television series. Among others, she has also designed sets & costumes for Karmen Rouggeri Children’s Stage, of which she is a founding member. In 2016, 2018 and 2020 she was awarded the Antonis Fokas Prize by the Academy of Corfiot Prizes for the costumes in the theatrical plays Iliad, The birth of the world and…stories of the Olympian gods and The Tsar with the long beard. She is the illustrator of books published by Livanis, Kedros, Patakis, Psychalos, Diaplasi, Psychogios and Karmina. The visual artist Rena Anousi-Helia has been a fundamental inspiration in her career.
Text: Karmen Rouggeri
Direction: Christina Kouloumpi, Karmen Rouggeri
Set & Costume Design: Christina Kouloumpi
Choreography – Lighting Design: Petros Galias
Original Music: Stefanos Korkolis
Video Design: Antonis Delaportas
Photos: Nektarios Kouris
