Elias Malandris (born 1966) is a distinguished theatrologist, director, reconstructor and TV presenter. He was born in Athens and originates from Kasos island. Studies He studied theatre at the Drama School of the Athens Conservatoire. He completed Theatre, Film and Television Studies at New York University (1995) and he continued his studies on humanities and Greek and European culture at the Department of Greek Studies of the Open University of Patras. He was the artistic director of the festival of Kasos island, for 17 years. Career Radio and Television He has been working in radio and television broadcasting, since 1987. He has collaborated with numerous Greek television channels, such as ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) ANT1, ALPHA, SKAI and with Bloomberg TV in New York. He has directed more than 1000 various programs and from 1992-2001 he was presenting the TV show Estin oun (Έστιν ουν) whose aim was the revival of ancient Greek drama on channel Seven-X and from 2008 until today in Vouli Tileorasi, (the channel of the House of the Parliament). The series of Test: A Fourth Dimension was a dramatization of the works of the poet Yannis Ritsos, which was honored by the Department of Modern Greek Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid, and was included in its curricula. He presented several TV projects that were tributes to the history of the National Theatre of Greece, Theatre of Art, of Amphitheatro and of the Theatrical Organization of Cyprus. He presented the series called “The Streets of the Archangel” about the life and art of the composer Mikis Theodorakis, in TV channels Seven-X and the Channel of the House of Greek Parliament. In 2004 he presented the musical TV program “The sea tells me a lot when it echoes…”. In 2005 he presented the TV series “Ihni” (Traces) at ERT1 (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation). During the winter of 2006 he presented two projects at the Second and the Third Public radio stations: the first called The Siege of Leningrad by A. Cinistera and the second one called Colchis which was the first reading of the reconstructed lost drama of Sophocles. Cimema He has created three short films: "The Water", "The Songs of Agony" and "The Twelve Words of the Gypsy". In 2000 he completed and presented a documentary about the ancient customs in Thrace under the title of Tsaousli. In 2001 he completed his first long film entitled