Diana Antonakos

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Diana Antonakos was born in Nauplion,, Greece ; she spent her formative years in Athens. When Diana was only three years old, her parents introduced her to the performing arts through Ancient Greek Theatre and film. When she was twelve years old, her father gave her a movie camera, which sparked a fascination with visual Media that continues today. While living in Greece, Diana studied folk dancing for six years. She holds degrees in Civil Engineering /Architecture and Creative Arts/ Theatre Film. Combining her background in Architecture, Art and Dance/ Theatre. Diana has taught Theatre Design at San Francisco State University and at various colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area.. She holds life long teaching credentials in Theatre Design, Interiors. She served on the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT) for 18 years. The design exhibit for USITT she chaired in the Bay Area USITT National Conference on Theatre, Film, and Television has received the Gold Medal in Prague out of 24 countries.
As the owner of ANTONAKOS DESIGN, since 1991, Diana has worked in several areas of the design business, including the creation of gardens for the film “Basic Instict”. Diana’s Concept Production design for the Greek Festival, Theme Park, a life size Greek Village in the Bay Area, has been used for the last 28 years yearly and has received several press reviews. Combining her skills as a creative director, designer, organizer, photographer and speaker, Diana has experience in directing, designing and producing events, such as The Fifty-Year Commemorative, Bay Area D-Day Anniversary Event in the Presidio; because of the use of the Enigma Machine in the exhibit, documented in the SF Presideo newspaper article, she holds Colonels rank for the event. Diana has directed high-profile, international, political events with personalities such as Ambassadors from Russia, France, Japan, Israel as well she created, directed events in music, theatre and acting with superstars including William Stewart, Rod McKuen, Photos Photiades; She created events, among others, about the SF Opera, the SF Symphony and the SF Ballet.
Diana is an accomplished painter whose works are on display in Athens, Stockholm, London, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York as well as in San Francisco and the Greater SF Bay Area.
In removed Diana worked with OISTAT, USITT, Stanford University to create WORDS, International Theater Dictionary English-Greek, published in Europe and Asia. In 2012 her Art Works, 75 pieces have been featured on GOBOS (Apollo Design Technologies), sold internationally. In 2013 -2015 she completed 550 new drawings, imaginary travels in theatre, exhibited at the Pacific Art League Palo Alto CA, December 2013/ 2015. She is the first to introduced projections on Stage in a full play, her expressionist Concept Production Design, "The Ghost Sonata" by Strindberg, SFSU. Diana design Caligula by Camu, The House of Bernanda Alba by Lorca,The Street car Named Desire by T Williams, The death Watch by Genet, Tosca.by Puccini.
Diana resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has two adult children, Helena a musician in New York and Pericles a businessman in San Francisco Bay Area and Leo, three years old grandson.
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Diana Antonakos has received numerous press reviews for her work for the Greek Festival, "The Ghost Sonata' SFSU, The 50 Year anniversary of D-Day in the Presideo and holds a rank for the Event.
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Afio, usitt, The Commonwealth Club of CA.
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Her work in theatre, Theme Park broke new grounds for the use of new materials and construction techniques. In her art works she uses abstractions to express ideas in new fresh ways using the latest technologies. I her paper "The Idea is the Same, What is Changing is Technology, The Way Ideas are Presented" copyright Library of CongressCongress, Diana predicts/ explains the way technology today is used in the Performing Arts .

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Job Titles	Set Artist / Designer, Creative Director
Years in industry	6+ years
Organisations / Memberships	USITT (United States Institute for Theatre Technology)
Work Permits	USA