Costas Mannouris was born in Athens in 1976 and grew up in Larnaca. He studied, at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, biology, evolutionary ecology and history-philosophy of science in the United States. He completed his PhD in the history of biology at the University of Athens under the supervision of Professor Costas Gavroglou.
He has published scientific, historical and philosophical papers and has taught at universities in the United States, Greece and Cyprus. He has received an award from the Poetry Symposium of the University of Patras, of which he has been a member since 2005, as well as the first prize for an original play from the Greek Magazine Epi skinis (2011).
He has received two writing prizes by the Cyprus Theatre Awards for his plays “Tonight I will throw your ashes!” (2015) and “Our house is on fire” (2017). His plays have been staged by the Cyprus Theatre Organization and other theatrical groups (twelve so far). In 2014 he published privately a collection of poems under the title “Neutral Half”. In 2019 his book “Evening Biologies – four plays” was published by Hippasus Theatre. In 2019 he was named Artist of the Year by Skala Times magazine. In 2021 he was nominated again as artist of the year (2020) by the Cyprus Theatre Awards.
