Michail Fotopoulos was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, where he later studied at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Northern Greece. Since 2005 he has been involved as an actor and director at various theatres and has contributed to a range of film productions and performances in Athens and Thessaloniki (National Theatre of Greece, Athens Festival, National Theatre of Northern Greece). After moving to Athens in 2007, he has been living in Berlin since 2014, where he participated in Christiane Mudra’s project yoUturn in May 2015. He has collaborated with Ballhaus Naunynstraße in various productions in the past three years. These include the play Die Dunkelkammer, directed by Kostis Kallivretakis, and the play Bloody, Medium oder Durch by the director Anestis Azas. Furthermore, Michail Fotopoulos and Kostis Kallivretakis have collaborated on two projects participating in festivals at Maxim Gorki Theater. In 2015 they presented their project Remember Distomo at the Voicing Resistance Festival and in 2018 they took part in the festival Mythen der Wirklichkeit with their play Karagiozis bei den Thermopylen. Within the programme ‚Kultur macht stark‘ Michail Fotopoulos also coordinated the project Wege ins Theater for youth in the Greek Community Berlin. In 2019 he will be presenting his first solo project.