About
Dimitra Thomaidou (she/her) is a Berlin-based dramaturg from Serres, Greece.
Her work approaches dramaturgy as a practice of worlding — understood as the building of open-ended relational and perceptual frameworks within artistic processes.
She holds an M.Arts. in Dramaturgy from HfMT Hamburg, a BA from the School of Philosophy from Ioannina University, and a Diploma in Theater and Performance from Delos Drama School and the University of Athens.
Expanding her dramaturgical practice, since 2024 her work has developed a research-oriented approach to post-digital artworks; she inquires into the affective design of AI-mediated artworks, how technological infrastructures shape our perception, and the art of dramaturgy as the affective and perceptual design of an artwork, and as a practice of critical engagement that connects aesthetics with social and political contexts.Recent and upcoming related projects include her own Clocking (2026) and Signals (2025, Gallery21 Hamburg), a collaboration with the _.mootpoint collective.
Over the past years, she has collaborated on diverse projects in Greece and Germany. She has contributed to dramaturgy and project development for works such as KappArt Festival (2024 & 2025 Andros Island, Greece); POWER SHAME (2023, DOCK11) and FOLK (2022 research lab), supported by THE NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETZ-STEPPING OUT with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR Berlin, by Yannis Karalis; Requiem for Fanny Goldmann (2023, Athens & Epidaurus Festival | grape) by Zoe Chatziantoniou. In the same year (2023) she worked on her own research project Rolling In The Pink (2023), supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR Berlin. Further projects include White on White (2022, BAM! Festival at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz) by the _.mootpoint collective; In den Nachbarschaften der Welt by Twin Flames Ensemble (2022, Music Series Prachtwerk Berlin), supported by NEUSTART KULTUR Ensemble-Program; between 2018 and 2020, she collaborated as a dramaturg consultant with Ballhaus Naunynstraße. Earlier collaborations in Berlin include, among others, work in the production team for the international festivals Permanente Beunruhigung and Republic Repair (Ballhaus Naunynstraße 2017 & 2018), as well as directing assistantships (Ballhaus Naunynstraße 2015-2017, Akademie der Künste 2013) and performing (Deutsche Oper Berlin 2014).
...and above all else, there is nature.
She has also participated in rural-outdoor-setting residencies in Las Teouleres, France (2010), and Tokalynga, Sweden (2017), both oriented towards site-specific creative inquiries in outdoor contexts. These experiences, alongside with her personal memories of growing up in the Greek countryside, inspired the Horafi Residency project on Samothrace Island — an ongoing cultural project within the outdoor terrain.
Since 2026, she has been a member of Open Mountain, a social cooperative for collective and social welfare.