Directing Fellowship
Although many American theaters are led by directors, very few theaters offer new and emerging directors what they need most: an artistic home within which to develop their artistry and learn how professional theaters are run. Without this bridge to the profession, it is extremely difficult for young directors to launch their careers, and for the American theater to cultivate the next generation of leaders. The Rattlestick Theater Directing Fellowship attempts to close this gap by providing crucial rungs on the ladder to a director’s professional success in the NYC theater industry.
In collaboration with the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, the Rattlestick Directing Fellowship provides an opportunity for one graduate director to have an artistic home at a prominent off-broadway theater where the fellow plays a vital artistic and administrative role. This 12-month fellowship provides a weekly salary, access to Rattlestick resources, a first hand experience with non-profit theater leadership, and an end-of-year event for the Directing Fellow to showcase their work for the industry and general public.
We are pleased to announce the 2026/2027 Directing Fellow Andreas Andreou
Andreas Andreou is a US-based theatre and film director and writer from Athens, Greece. His work explores the extremities of reality through explosive, sardonic, and political explorations of our humanity.
Andreas graduated from King’s College London, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he was awarded the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize for Directing. His directing work, showcased in several countries, includes the English-language premieres of Utopia by Mikhail Durnenkov and Apologiae 4 & 5 by Academy Award Nominee Efthimis Filippou; the Romanian premiere of Far Away by Caryl Churchill, and the Greek-language premiere of An Oak Tree by Tim Crouch. In 2022, Andreas wrote and directed his first short film, By Heart, adapted from the stage play D.D.D. by Dimitris Dimitriadis. While at Yale, he also directed Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Coriolanus, Caryl Churchill’s Lovesick, and new works by Emily Breeze, Matthew Chong, and Andrew Rincón. His own plays, My Death Etc. and M.A.Z.I., have represented the National Theatre of Greece internationally under the auspices of the Union des Théâtres de l'Europe (UTE).
Between 2017 and 2020, Andreas worked on several projects with the German theatre group Rimini Protokoll at major European institutions, including Haus der Kulturen der Welt, GRIPS-Theatre Berlin, Onassis Stegi, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Residenztheater München, and Schauspielhaus Zürich. In 2023, he collaborated with Robert Wilson on his productions of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women and Jarry/Miró’s UBU at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus and The Watermill Center, respectively. He also served as The Watermill Center Summer Program Assistant that same year.
In and out of school, Andreas has attended directing seminars with Dima Krymov, Thomas Ostermeier, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Ian Rickson, Lyndsey Turner, et.al. He has also trained under Theodoros Terzopoulos and Savvas Stroumpos in the internationally recognized, intensely physical method of the Attis Theatre.