Ellpetha Tsivicos is a Cypriot-American artist, director, curator and producer who makes lively subversive, dialogical and immersive work in community gardens, public parks, NYC waterways, and the occasional theater. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama with a Minor in Art & Public Policy. She has conceived and curated and creative produced the inaugural season of Sugar, Sugar! along with Public Assembly. 

 

As the co-founder of One Whale’s Tale, a multidisciplinary arts incubator that fosters independent work with emerging and established artists, she strives to create decentralized ecosystems that give artists agency over their ideas, stories, voices and ancestry. Her production of QUINCE in August of 2020 became the first live theatre to happen in New York City during the COVID pandemic establishing her as a leading voice in immersive, site-specific and large-scale performance. Ellpetha leads a creative arts healing program I Wish I Knew How where she mentors a community of formerly incarcerated people, is the co-founder of the Brooklyn Cumbia Festival, and continues her lifelong advocacy for her homeland as the founder of The Cyprus Foundation. She has also directed and produced a number of short films, documentaries, and music videos. 

 

Ellpetha has created work with and at Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, The SHED, The People’s Garden, the Bushwick Starr, the TEAM, Onassis Stegi, Phaneromenis 70, the cell Theatre, the Goethe Institute, Double Edge Theatre, We Are Here, PS 1, the Exponential Festival, the Art in Embassies Gala, the MoMa PS1 Gala, and Art Basel. Her work has been supported by the Brooklyn Arts Council, A.R.T./New York, Humanities New York, NYSCA, the City Parks Foundation, the Venturous Theater Fund and the Citizens Committee for New York City.