George Xander

George Xander was born in London to a Greek Cypriot father and Scottish mother. He trained in London and graduating from London Guildhall with a Bachelor of Arts Fine Arts & Design Honours Degree. After a varied career George returned to study this time graduating with an Diploma in acting. At the age of 34 he began his professional career in theater and continued to work with companies in the UK and internationally from London, France and Hungary to the Czech Republic. George has performed in plays from Sartre and Camus to Ghelderode, Schnitzler, Chekhov, Shakespeare and adaptations by Pushkin, Bergman and Nabokov and contemporary writers Philip Ayckbourn, Sam South and Sarah Lawson. An actor, writer and producer George recently played Aegisthus in Agamemnon by Aeschylus and wrote Immigrant Song as a London/ International project which previewed in London 2011 and made the 'Top 10 Shows to See'at the Prague Fringe Festival 2012 with his company Pantheon Players. George has directed Karna Kunti by Tagore and co-directed Mad Girl by Mishima; The Wayfarer by Bryusov, Pierrot - Assassin of His Wife' by Margueritte; The Crystal Spider by Madame Rachilde; Women at the Tomb by Michael De Ghelderode; The Terrorist and a Whore by Leonid Andreyev and Little Tragedies by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. He has performed extensively in London, Budapest, Prague and cities in the South of France from Nice to Bordeaux. George played Roy in Richard Cosgrove's Empire competition film Blade Runner 60 and played the charismatic 'Greek' in Salem Kapsaski's musical horror Spidarlings. He had a cameo role in Fish n Chips by Elias Demetriou.