Panos Koronis


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Panos Koronis is a director working in Advertising, Film and Theater.
He was born in 1968 in a family of Egyptiotes (Greeks of Egypt). A family of classical and jazz musicians, who migrated in Europe after the bombings of 1952. Panos was born and grew up in Greece. He was kicked out of kinder garden in 1972 at the age of four and from high school in 1985 at the age of 16. He studied Photography and Directing at the American University of London, before he went to Los Angeles to study Film at the Los Angeles City College (AA Degree in Film). In 1994 he meets Lance Lane and intensively starts to study Theater. In 1995 he also starts his studies on Directing and Acting at the UCLA. In 1996, together with Lance Lane and others, founds the Space Theater Group in Los Angeles where he produces, directs and acts in various plays such as: “True West” by Sam Sheppard, “Home Free” by Lanford Wilson and “Indian wants the Bronx” by Israel Horovitz.

Meanwhile, he works as an Assistant Director and Production Manager for Film and Advertising with well-known Directors such as: Tony Kaye, Sam Bayer, Sean Penn, Leslie Dector, Jeff Preiss, Baker Smith, Bryan Buckley, Joe Pytka, Michel Gondry and Kinka Usher.
In 2004 he returns to Greece and he writes two full length film scripts while he is working in Advertising as a Director for commercials produced in Greece and in other countries as well. Among the companies that he has worked with are: Vodafone, Aegean Airlines, Groupama Insurance, Hellmans, Amstel Beer, Amnesty International, Cosmote, McDonalds, Bank of Cyprus, UNHCR (the UN refugee agency), Nestle, Keo beer and Hyunday.  

​In 2013, he co-founds DeLarge (http://www.delargeprojects.com) for the staging of his first theatrical production “Someone is talking to himself holding a glass of milk” based on Efthymis’ Filippou book of the same title; and for developing his personal projects. 

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