Tassos Apostolides

Tassos Apostolides was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1947. He studied Mathematics, worked as a teacher and today he is the Vice-President for Academic and Student Affairs in the American Farm School in Thessaloniki. He worked as a columnist for newspapers and magazines of Thessaloniki and Athens from 1972 to 1984. His work as a comics’ scriptwriter became well known through his adaptations of Aristophanes’ eleven comedies. This series was extremely successful as it sold more than 750,000 copies and it received a Special Honorary Award from the International Institute of Theatre. Six of the eleven adapted comedies were translated into English, French and German but they were distributed only to the Greek book market. The graphic novel Tinella Kallinike, the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece was also translated into English, French and German. Tassos Apostolides has written the script for 35 comic strips in total, for both children and adults and has collaborated with some of the greatest Greek comic script designers including T. Akokalides, N. Vakalis, M. Zoglopitou, A. Papadatos and G. Tragakes. He has also written the scripts for comic strips, the scripts for cartoons on DVD-ROM as well as one-act plays and texts for stand-up comedy. In 1999 he founded the Heretic Company and he was the exclusive script writer and director of all the plays performed by this theatrical group. He is a member of the Greek Directors Guild, the European Federation F.E.R.A., as well as of the International Federation M.E.I. He has also taught Techniques for Script Writing for ten years to various Schools of Fine Arts. He has worked as the organizer, supervisor and consultant of exhibitions, festivals and events regarding sketches, caricatures and comics and he has given numerous lectures on these topics.