Andreas Manolikakis
Andreas Manolikakis
Clinical Professor (acting-directing), Actor, Director.
Pace University New York City, United States
Andreas Manolikakis is a Lifetime Member and a member of the Board of Directors of the Actors Studio.
He is a Clinical Professor of Directing and Acting, and Director of the Directing Department of the Actors Studio Drama School (Master of Fine Arts) Program at Pace University in New York City, where he served as Chairman from 2006-June2020.
He has taught master classes and workshops in Acting, Directing, and Script Analysis and lectured on The Development of the Method, Stanislavski & Vakhtangov, The Actors Studio, Method Acting & Directing, and Method Acting and Greek Tragedy, at the Actors Studio, International Theater Festivals, National Drama and Film Schools, Universities, Conservatories in the U.S.A. and Europe.
As a director and as an actor, he has worked in the United States and Europe. Among his directing highlights are: Porte Close, by N. Darmon, at the National Theatre of East Paris;
Elektra, by Sophocles, at the Actors Studio
Liliom, by F. Molnar, in Athens.
Among his acting highlights are:
On Broadway opposite Sir Derek Jacobi in Hugh Whitemore’s Breaking the Code,
a leading role in the feature film Ice House, opposite Melissa Gilbert.
He has translated into Greek and published in Athens in 1997 Nikolai Gorchakov’s Russian classic The Vakhtangov School of Stage Art.
*Ellen Burstyn (President of the Actors Studio, Oscar and Tony-winning actress) has said for Andreas Manolikakis: “Andreas Manolikakis understands the work of Stanislavsky and Vakhtangov better than any teacher or interpreter since Lee Strasberg was teaching at the Actors Studio.”
*Arthur Penn, former President of the Actors Studio, Tony-winning and three times Oscar award nominee: “Andreas Manolikakis is one of the most insightful and gifted members of the Actors Studio.