Costas Mannouris
Writer
Who is Costas?
Costas Mannouris studied biology, evolutionary ecology, and history and philosophy of biology. He has published scientific, historical, and philosophical work and has taught at universities in both the United States and Cyprus. Sixteen of his theatrical works have been staged to date
Costas has received an award from the Poetry Symposium of the University of Patras, of which he has been a member since 2005, as well as the first prize for an original play from the Greek Magazine Epi skinis (2011). He has received two writing prizes by the Cyprus Theatre Awards for his plays “Tonight I will throw your ashes!” (2015) and “Our house is on fire” (2017).
In 2014 he published privately a collection of poems under the title “Neutral Half”. In 2019 his book “Evening Biologies – four plays” was published by Hippasus Theatre. In 2019 he was named Artist of the Year by Skala Times magazine. In 2021 he was nominated again as artist of the year (2020) by the Cyprus Theatre Awards. Since 2023 he is a member of the inhouse artistic team of Larnaka 2030 European Capital of Culture.
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