[1] He was born in Divri, a village in the Peloponnese and had a peripatetic youth.
He studied acting, music and languages, and taught drama at the Stavrakou School in Athens (1963–64).
He wrote scripts for two television series broadcast on the state channel (1974–76).
His debut play The Ceremony was staged in 1967 and revived at the National Theatre in 1969.
As a translator, he translated the works of Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, Harold Pinter, Fernando Arrabal, Antonin Artaud, Beaumarchais and William Faulkner.