Bio

Nadia Foskolou is a New York–based theatre director, dramaturg, teacher, translator and writer, also working in Athens, Greece, where she is originally from.

A Fulbright, NATO and National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation scholar, she holds an MA in Theatre Studies from the Sorbonne University, a Diploma in Acting from the ‘Florent’ Acting School (Paris), a BA in Theatre Studies from the University of Athens and an MFA in Directing from Columbia University. 

Nadia's translation of Anne Bogart & Tina Landau's The Viewpoints Book was published in Greece in 2020 by the prestigious Patakis Publishers.

She writes essays inspired by the NYC landscape for the major Greek newspaper TA NEA.

She serves as a Directing Mentor at Fordham University’s Theatre Department (NYC).

In New York she just directed (June 2024) for The Bohemians: New York Musicians’ Club a concert version of the new musical MANIFESTO: The Diaghilev Project by Nathan Wright & Dustin Gledhill, whose world premiere she had directed in 2018 (IN ABSENTIA PRODUCTIONS, Robert Moss Theatre).

In Athens she recently directed Rona Munro's Iron at Metaxourgeio Theatre, to great critical acclaim. The show ran for two consecutive seasons (2021-22 and 2022-23).

Her staging of Nathan Wright’s Peninsula won an Outstanding Ensemble Award at the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival and was selected for the Fringe Encores.

In 2014 she directed Hôtel Méditerranée, a new theatre piece based on Matisse’s Self Portrait by Charles Mee (world premiere) and on the film documentary Yiannis Moralis by Stelios Charalambopoulos, at Between the Seas Festival in New York.

Other NYC directing credits include: Nathan Wright’s Lake Full of Iron; Sky Full of Hope (Manhattan Repertory Theatre), Anna Forsythe & Michelle Vugmayster’s Opus D’Amour (Baryshnikov Arts Center, Theaterlab), Euripides’ The Madness of Hercules (Euripides Summer Festival), Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear, Bergman’s Best Intentions, Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Havel’s Protest (Columbia Stages).

In Athens, she directed (and also translated) the Greek premiere of a workshop presentation of Stan Lai’s Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land (Analogio Festival, 2018).

She directed, translated and produced the Greek premiere of Kathrine Kressmann Taylor’s Address Unknown, which was voted Best Short-term Production of 2015 and was reprised for six consecutive seasons.

Other Athens directing credits include: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Bremer Freiheit, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Alain De Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life, Venedikt Erofeev’s Moscow to the End of the Line, Jean-Luc Lagarce’s Journey to the Netherlands, Marius Ivaskevicius’s The Neighbor, Sotiris Dimitriou’s Summer in the Bodies.

She is the co-creator of a new play on climate change, presented at University Settlement Theatre in New York (2016), as the culminating event of a 4-month Science and Stage Collaborative Fellowship which she attended, organized by Superhero Clubhouse, an eco-theatre NYC-based group.

Nadia has also worked at the NYC non-profit arts organization ‘chashama’ and at the Ancient Greek Drama Centre. She teaches theatre at the high-school and college level, has participated in conferences internationally and has published scholarly articles. She translates from English, French and Greek.