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The Deputy Ministry of Culture expresses its deepest sorrow for the death of the actor and director Fotos Fotiadis, an artist who sealed with his many years of presence the theatrical scene of our country and especially the theatrical production of ancient Greek drama.
Fotos Fotiadis was born in Nicosia in 1958. He studied acting with a scholarship at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece. Upon his return to Cyprus after his studies, he worked as an actor in theatre and television. He collaborated with the Cyprus Radio Foundation, where he presented the show "For the big kids", for which he wrote, adapted and directed plays in which he participated as an actor.
In 1971, with the establishment of the Cyprus Theatre Organisation, he started working as an actor in productions of our state theatre. In 1973 he went to London for further training in directing with a scholarship from the Republic of Cyprus. During his stay there, he taught ancient Greek drama at the Drama School of Dartinghton College of Arts and organised workshops on ancient tragedy at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 1975 he went to Canada where he worked as a director with a group studying ancient Greek tragedy.
In the following years he continued to work as a director and actor in theatre, television and radio. He founded the "New Theatre Group", with which he performed repertoire works and represented Cyprus at the "International Open Theatre Days" in Athens (1980) and at the Ithaca Festival (1981 and 1982) where he won the first prize for best performance with the play "Legend of Akritas" in 1982. He also taught theatre at the National Conservatory of Nicosia and Limassol, directed the play "The Ring of the Mother" by Manolis Kalomiris at the National Opera House in Athens and collaborated with the "New Theatre of Vladimir Kafkaridis" as an actor and director.
He was Secretary General of the Cyprus Centre of the International Theatre Institute and in this capacity he participated in many international conferences and seminars on ancient drama.
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