Marika Thomadaki was born in Athens and studied History-Archeology and French Literature in Kapodistrian University of Athens. Professor and dean in the school of Philosophy of Athens’ Kapodistrian University, she is an expert on theatre’s semiotics and her books promote the theatre’s theory, while lately, she focuses on the philosophy of the theatrical sign in interrelation to the chaos’ theory.
Marika Thomadaki is the founder and president of the Center of theatre’s semiotics and publisher of the journal “Theatrographies”. She is a theatre critic and writes theatre articles in newspapers and in theatre reviews of Greece and abroad. She also collaborates with several Universities all over the world and with International Centers of Theatre studies.
She is also the author of the following books: Lorenzaccio de Musset: Syntaxe dramatique et discours politique, 1999. Semiotics of the total theatrical discourse, 1993. Theatrology and aesthetics. Towards a theory of energetical theatricality, 1995. La dramaturgie de Koltès, 2001. Reflections on theatre, 1996. The theatrical mirage. Introduction to the science of performance, 2001. The revolution of the deads of Takis Antoniou: The theatre of the ‘unseen’ discourse, 2001. Essais sur le tragique, 2002. Philosophy of the sign and chaos: The experiment of the theatrical metaphor, 2003.