Sarantos Georgios Zervoulakos, born in 1980 in Greece to a Greek father and a German mother, grew up bilingual between Greece and Germany, studied medicine before undertaking a degree in theatre directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar from 2006 to 2010.
Since then, numerous productions followed, including at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Theater Oberhausen, Schauspielhaus Graz, Schauspiel Leipzig, Residenztheater München, Theater in der Josefstadt, Volkstheater Wien and Burgtheater Wien. His production of „A Summer Night“ at the Burgtheater was nominated for a „Nestroy“ in the „Best Newcomer“ category in 2011, and he was named best newcomer in 2012 as part of the „Theater heute“ magazine critic poll. In 2016, his production of „Brighton Beach Memoirs“ at the Volkstheater Wien received a nomination for the Dorothea Neff Prize.
From 2016 onwards, productions and projects followed increasingly in Greece, including at the National Theatre of Athens, the National Theatre of Thessaloniki, the Onassis Cultural Center Athens (Onassis Stegi), for the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation Athens, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Athens, for the Achilleion Museum on the island of Corfu, and the Athens & Epidaurus Festival in the amphitheatre of Ancient Epidaurus (2023).
In 2016 he founded the multilingual collective „Eteria Filon – A Multilingual Open Society For Artistic Interchange“ www.eteriafilon.com
Using his first name Sarantos Georgios, he has written screenplays („Destinyland – Eine digitale Odyssee“, 2021) and theatre texts, as well as translated contemporary Greek drama into German (e.g. „Rob“ by Efthimis Filippou, published by Felix Bloch Erben in 2022, or „Wer sich trennen will, hebe die Hand“ by Yorgos Kapoutzidis, published by Schultz&Schirm Vienna, 2023).
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