“If you don’t like it, change it.” – Pierce teacher
Marsa Makris(P ’76) is an acclaimed cinema and theatre director and writer currently based in Greece.Her latest feature-length film Ierόsyloi (Sacrilege), co-produced by the Greek Film Centre and ERT – the Greek National Broadcasting Network – won the prize for best original soundtrack at the X’-Edition of Otranto Film Fund International Festival in Italy for 2018. It was also shown at the official selection of the 4th Festival Internacional ADF-LUMITON de Fotografía Cinematográfica in Buenos Aires, Argentina last year, at 50/50: Gender Equality, at the WIFT Film Festival in Athens in 2018; and at the 58th Thessaloniki International Film Festival in 2017. Her short-fiction film To taméno(Offered boy), was also presented in the official selection of the 56thCannes Film Festival, and in the official selection of many other international film festivals worldwide. It was also the Greek Film Centre’s entry for the European Academy Awards-Felix.
Among her various striking artistic creations over the years, Ms. Makris is also known for her version for the stage of the emblematic work of renowned poet Yannis Ritsos, La sonate au clair de lune, commissioned by the IFA-Institut Français d’Athènes. Her unique artistic vision has been honed through many projects as well as through her outstanding studies – Theatre Directing and Acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York, a bachelor’s degree in Motion Picture, Television and Video from the University of California Los Angeles, as well as through a slew of workshops all over the world, including Teatr Laboratorium,J. Grotowski, Wroclaw-Poland; Odin Teatret,E. Barba, Holstebro-Denmark;La Mama Theatre, Suizi Terayama, New York; Bread and Puppet Theatre, Peter Schumann, New York.
