The Line Theatre is a Lyon-based Theatre company for the production of European Theatre, working largely in English. It was formed as a non-profitmaking organisation (an Association 1901) created in October 2011.
Maria Menegaki
Treasurer
Maria is a Greek international theatre artist and performer. She has a French language, literature and civilisation master's degree from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and a Comic Theatre degree from La Scène-sur-Saône in Lyon. From 2014 on Maria has worked with many different theatre companies in Lyon, Athens and New York as an actor, a director, a writer and a translator. She also works as a theatre teacher in several European institutions such as the Drama Departement of the National Athens Conservatoire. Her latest theatre work was presented during the 25-26 season in Athens, a solo theater performance piece inspired by clown work techniques.
Alexander Laube
President
Raised in New-Zealand, he directed his first play ’The Magic Hand’ by Phillip Mann, for families, in 1983.
1986 marked the start his professional career, working in a number of fields – notably producing a number of plays with psychiatric patients and staff. He also wrote for the theatre, and formed Moonbeam Theatre with a small group of other actors. Moonbeam Theatre worked intensively, performed around New Zealand, centred in Dunedin.
After training in London, and performing at the Edinburgh Fringe, he returned to NZ where he obtained a degree in Theatre Studies at Otago University, working as a professional actor and director as well as teaching theatre.
Moving to France in 1997, he formed the Flying Pig Theatre Company in 2003, and Line Theatre in 2011. While developing the activity of the company and directing, he continues to act, direct, teach and occasionally write for the company and other organisations.
Keith Farquhar
Secretary
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