Sissy Doutsiou is an international multidisciplinary artist residing in Athens, Greece.
Sissy Doutsiou characterized by The Franz Kafka Society from Prague with the following statement “The best Metamorphosis that we have ever seen. Kafka would love Sissy Doutsiou as Gregory Samsa.” Sissy is an actress, spoken word artist, curator, educator, artivist and host. She has hosted and produced numerous intergenerational poetry, spoken word events as well as performed at festivals; including 1st Biennale in Athens, Sardam Literature Festival in Cyprus, Weimar Poetry Award and Vienna Art and Poetry Video Festival. She co-founded and curated the annually International Video Poetry Festival since 2011 and the International Experimental Film Festival since 2023. Sissy was a featured artist for 2019 in Financial Consequences: an International Poetry Festival in London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Sissy will be releasing her first LP, “Insult of Public Modesty” in the Fall of 2025. Sissy's work examines her personal life experiences, social justice issues, and healing through trauma utilizing art as the medium.


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"A revolutionary poet of our era. Her poetry can operate simultaneously as a dream of liberation"
David Graeber: Anthropologist & Writer in Guardian Newspaper and Penguin Books 

San Francisco

City Lights Bookstore

Sissy Doutsiou’s live set, finding it to be a testament to the power of spoken word in music. A performance choice – a reckless embodiment of a pained, precarious respiratory empathy that still feels urgent. Newly, furiously, eloquent.

     

Theatre

Liminal Archive by Al Límite Collective

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

NIGHT! (Yard Gal) by Rebecca Prichard

4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane

A Differentt Kiss

Dying like a Country by D. Dimitriadis

Newton: The Force of God

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 She rewrites the mournful Happy Days's Samuel Beckett. The writer succeeds in turning a sociological essay into a long-range poem. 

Konstantinos Bouras: Writer, Playwright and Critic
     

 She uses her authentic language and writes an embodied poetry with flesh and blood. It is her lens that can start from the narration of a personal story or from family memories, but it follows an inductive process by magnifying, that is, something that concerns others. 

Spiros Aravanis: Prοfessor at the Hellenic Open University and Professor at the Department of Archeology History and Cultural Heritage Management
     

 Sissy Doutsiou gives all her self to her literature heroes and her theatrical roles. 

Nona Moleski: Journalist & Critic
  

Live Performance

THE VOYEUR

A voyeur woman organizes or observes sexual orgies in search of sensitivity and anticipation of pleasure. The domination of the erotic scene, the materialistic illusions of the Western world, the dizzying irritated men, corrupted girls, bodies that sacrifice, are delivered with innocence in the triumph of Dionysian fantasy.

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 A revolutionary poet of our era. Her poetry can operate simultaneously as a dream of liberation 

David Graeber: Anthropologist & Writer in Guardian Newspaper and Penguin Books
     

 Sissy Doutsiou performed her poems shockingly once again while with the electronic sounds we were transported - for as long as it lasted - to another parallel universe. 

Thekla Tselepi: Radio Producer

 Sissy Doutsiou, in the leading role (Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka), gives a real recital of the whole physical approach of the suffering and crucified human, reaching the limits of acting self-sacrifice, not even hesitating to "crumple" herself brutally. 

Leandros Polenakis: Theater Critic (since 1978) - PhD Department of Mass Media and Cultural Management
  

Four Contemporary Poets from Greece

PAID RAPE Spoken Word Poetry: Sissy Doutsiou

invited by Versopolis - European Poetry Festival of Hope

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Journalist & Critic

Nona Moleski

Sissy Doutsiou gives all her self to her literature heroes and her theatrical roles.