I like to be intimate and to build bridges from the personal to the political. To create alternative narratives and give visibility to voices that are silenced. I am fascinated by the transformative power of autobiography intermixed with fiction.
I adopt elements of the camp style; artifice, frivolity, pretentiousness and shocking excess. Born in the threshold of the new century, I integrate my pop-culture addiction in my works. I love to mix art and politics with Britney Spears, Disney, Superheroes, Netflix, memes etc. Referencing my music obsessions, my crashes, my family members, the problem of late stage capitalism takes over from what we perceive as a classical, linear dramaturgy.
Seeing that theatre over-serves the most privileged people and risks becoming irrelevant to the many, I like to create art and community environments with mainstream references.
Elias Adam is a director, dramaturg and writer, based in Athens, Greece. Born in Greece in 1991, he studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Law School and the Karolos Koun Art Theater.
His works have been presented in Greece, Cyprus, and Germany. As a director, dramaturg and writer, Elias has worked with ONASSIS STEGI (We are in the army now - 2021, Kivotos Channel - 2021, Erotic Postcards from Greece - 2020, Hamlet, a desktop performance - 2020), the National Theater of Greece (The End of Eddy - 2019), the Theatre Organisation of Cyprus (Father help us - 2019), the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr (Masculinity in crisis - 2018), the Maxim Gorki Theater (Verräter - 2017) and other venues and institutions. He has been a fellow of the Venice Biennale College (2021), the International Forum of the Berliner Festspiele Theatertreffen (2019) and other international institutions, working with Krzysztof Warlikowski, Falk Richter, She She Pop, Thomas Köck, Konstantin Bogomolov.
What happened so far
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showed We are in the army now at Ringlokschuppen Ruhr in Müllheim an der Ruhr, Germany
showed We are in the army now at Teatros del Canal in Madrid, Spain
directed Sadboi
directed Kivotos Channel for Stegi - Onassis Foundation
wrote and directed We Are in The Army Now for Stegi - Onassis Foundation
created It's Ophelia, bitch!
directed Leonce and Lena, Children of Rage + Love, produced by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus
created Hamlet, a desktop performance for Stegi - Onassis Foundation
2020
was a collaborator director at Erotic Postcards from Greece, at Stegi - Onassis Foundation
2019
wrote and directed Father Help Us with the support of the Theatrical Organisation of Cyprus, presented at different venues in Cyprus and Greece
2019
directed The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis, at the National Theatre of Greece
2019
was invited and participated at the International Forum of Theatertreffen at the Berliner Festspiele, in Berlin
2019
directed The End of Eddy vol. Athens, at the National Theatre of Greece's festival for young theatre makers
2019 won the START - Scaling award for his project Smallville
2018
developed and ran the project Smallville, in Greece's
countryside
2018
wrote and directed Eyolf Machine, a play based
on Ibsen's Little Eyolf, presented at various venues
and festivals in Cyprus and Greece
2017
developed and staged the project Masculinity in crisis,
at the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr in Germany
2017
worked as a dramaturgy and direction intern for Falk
Richter's show Verräter, at Maxim Gorki Theatre in
Berlin
2016
2015
wrote and directed Gamlet, at Apo Michanis Theatre
in Athens
directed Oscar et la Dame Rose, presented in various
venues in Greece and Cyprus