Paris Mexis / Curriculum Vitae

Paris Mexis is a director, designer and creative director working in opera, theatre, dance, cinema, television, advertisement and communication, creating shows, exhibitions, corporate events and promotional design.

He is a creative associate of the communication design agency Beetroot, a book cover designer for Patakis Publications, a music cover designer (Decca, Sony, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi etc) and a radio producer at the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT): Third Programme.

Paris is a frequently invited speaker and educator, lecturing and conducting seminars and workshops on design, education and performance. He is a design & communications advisor to the Mind the Fact festival, the Costeas-Geitonas private School, a founding member of the non-profit cultural organisation Polyphonica and the founding president and current vice-president of the Greek Theatre Designers Association.

Paris was born in Athens and studied design for performance and scenography in London at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and in Prague at Divadelni fakulta Akademie Muzickych Umeni, interior design at the Athenian Artistic and Technological Group (AKTO) and at the Middlesex University and music at the Exemplary Experimental Conservatory in Athens.