Kostas Kastanas - Actor

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Kostas Kastanas was born in Piraeus, Greece and graduated first in his class from the School of Drama, National Theatre of Greece in 1964.

TEACHERS

Kastanas  was the student of the Oskar winnng actress Katina Paxinou and her husband Alexis Minotis, long-time National Theatre Director, at the  school of Drama of the National theatre and later on  with their own company. Among his other teachers  were the directors Alexis Solomos and Takis Mouzenidis, as well as actors Thanos Cotsopoulos, Stelios Vokovich, Lykourgos Kallergis , Annna Synodinou, Helen Chalkoussi, Dimitris Myrat and  Dimitri Horn.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Kastanas also has experience teaching young professional actors. After working as an acting instructor at the Veaki School of Drama and The Popular Experimental Theatre 's School of Drama, he spent twelve years (1983-1995) teaching classical and modern theatre and Greek drama, at the School of Drama of the National Theatre of Greece. He counts over 250 actors now active on the Greek stage among his former students. He recently returned from the United States where he gave lectures and acting demonstrations in Ancient Greek and English, at Bradley University (Peoria, Illinois) and James Madison University (Harrisonburg, Virginia).