Alkis worked as an actor at The Connaught Theatre Worthing, The Royal Court Theatre, The Half Moon Theatre, Theatro Technis, The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, The Thorndike Theatre, The Oxford Playhouse, The Belgrade Theatre, The Library Theatre Manchester, The Sheffield Crucible, The Place Theatre, and The Shaw Theatre. Films include: For Your Eyes Only, A Woman for All Time, Black Sheep, Romeo of the Spirits, Red Thursday (nominated as Best Supporting Actor at the Thessaloniki Film Festival), Akamas (Shown at the Venice Film Festival, and won The Best Narrative Feature award at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival in 2007), and in 2007 Legend of the Golden Fish Cake. He has also worked extensively on Television, including parts in: The Cuckoo Waltz, One Chance in Four, Sexton Blake, Connie, Watch All Night, The Dark Side of the Sun, Rockliffe’s Babies, Thin Air, Vote for Them, Rumpole of the Bailey, the Gingerbread Girl, and the title role of The Greek Interpreter in the series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He spent a year at the Royal Court assisting on productions by David Hare, Stephen Frears, Athol Fugard and with Jim Sharman on the original production of The Rocky Horror Show all of which kindled his future interest in directing. He made his directing debut with Tennessee William’s In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel at The New End Theatre, followed by Miss Julie (Sir Richard Steele), The Collector (Argonaut Theatre Company), Beckett’s Theatre I and II (British Premier and National Tour), In Other Beasts The Best (devised piece on Greek Myths, Theatro Technis), Debbie Issit's The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband and Lee Blessing's Two Rooms (London Repertory Company), and the Musicals An Evening with Carmen Miranda by Carmen Gomez (Jermyn Street Theatre), and Sharp Practice at the Wimbledon Studio Theatre. Directed Moliere’s Tartuffe (The National Theatre of Cyprus (THOK) in Nicosia), and Leah Vitali’s The Dinner (Skala Theatre, Larnaka). All Cloned Up by Mike Bennett, (Bloomsbury Theatre and the Westminster Theatre, Wimbledon Studio Theatre, The Latchmere, a 4 week season at the Edinburgh Festival, and off West End at the Kings Head Theatre). All Cloned Up was also the chosen gala performance for the Athinorama Greek Theatre Awards in Athens, and Roast Beef by Leah Vitali (Riverside Studios in London), as part of The Greek Cultural Olympiad; most recently in the West End Blokbusta (Glam busta), at the New Players Theatre, www.glambusta.co.uk More short story narrators |
