Yannis Aposkitis

Yannis Aposkitis was born in Athens in 1994. He holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Democritus University of Thrace and a master’s degree in urban and spatial planning from the School of Architecture at NTUA, as well as a diploma in acting from the “Dilos” Drama School.

Blending political absurdity with dark humor, his work moves between stage and screen with a taste for the grotesque and the philosophical. He is the author of “The Provocateurs,” a dark political farce staged at the Experimental Stage for Emerging Creators (2022–2023, dir. Orestis Stavropoulos), and “Black Magic or Let the Dead Decease,” a Freudian black comedy which he also directed at Bellos Theater (2024). His adaptations include “Ivan vs. Ivan,” based on Gogol, and “Objects,” a surreal reworking inspired by Jean Genet’s “The Maids.”

His sketch-based dark comedy, “Νasty Scenery,” was created for the Athens Epidaurus Festival, while other unpublished plays such as “The Friends” and “The Bat, also Democrators and Nohaveland” are currently in development for 2025–2026.

As a screenwriter, he has written short films including “Holes” (dir. Petros Kalfamanolis) and “Covidiots” (co-directed with Kalfamanolis). He has also contributed to television series and movies.

As a dramaturg, he has collaborated on productions such as “Class Enemy” (National Theatre Youth Stage, 2021, dir. Georgia Mavragani), “Human Resources” (Plyfa Arts Space, 2023, dir. Niki Doulgeraki), and “Abelard and Eloise” (Plyfa Arts Space, dir. Dimitris Stauropoulos)

His creative world is inhabited by dead heroes, failed utopias, malfunctioning bureaucracies, and ghost hotels. He treats theater as a laboratory of comedic macabre hallucinations—and his punchlines always aim for the teeth.

Yannis Aposkitis is an Onassis AiR Fellow for 2025/26 through the Dramaturgy Fellowship.