Sissy Doutsiou is an international multidisciplinary artist residing in Athens, Greece.
Sissy Doutsiou is an actress, spoken word artist, and curator — a pioneering figure in the Greek spoken word scene performing in Greek and English. Her multimedia performances weave ritual masks, visual art, and poetry into politically charged, visceral events rooted in a single ethos: existential tenderness against the violence of normality — using art as both weapon and act of tenderness, moving through personal experience, mythology, social resistance, and eroticism.

She has performed at the 1st Biennale in Athens, the Weimar Poetry Award, the Brighton Fringe Festival, the London School of Economics, the Vienna Art and Poetry Video Festival, and the International Poetry Festival at Theatre Deli, London. In 2025 she released her debut spoken word LP Insult of Public Modesty (Inner Ear Records) — one of the first contemporary spoken word vinyl records in Greece.
performed in Greek and English with English Supertitles touring internationally
"A revolutionary poet of our era. Her poetry can operate simultaneously as a dream of liberation"
David Graeber: Anthropologist & Writer in Guardian Newspaper and Penguin Books 

Sissy Doutsiou’s live set, finding it to be a testament to the power of spoken word in music. A performance choice – a reckless embodiment of a pained, precarious respiratory empathy that still feels urgent. Newly, furiously, eloquent. 
San Francisco City Lights Bookstore
Sissy Doutsiou celebrated by the Franz Kafka Society of Prague with the statement "The best Metamorphosis that we have ever seen. Kafka would love Sissy Doutsiou as Gregor Samsa"
the Franz Kafka Society of Prague
     

A revolutionary poet of our era. Her poetry can operate simultaneously as a dream of liberation

David GraeberAnthropologist & Writer in Guardian Newspaper and Penguin Books
     

Sissy Doutsiou performed her poems shockingly once again while with the electronic sounds we were transported - for as long as it lasted - to another parallel universe.

Thekla TselepiRadio Producer
     

Sissy Doutsiou, in the leading role (Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka), gives a real recital of the whole physical approach of the suffering and crucified human, reaching the limits of acting self-sacrifice, not even hesitating to "crumple" herself brutally.

Leandros PolenakisTheater Critic (since 1978) - PhD Department of Mass Media and Cultural Management
     

A revolutionary poet of our era. Her poetry can operate simultaneously as a dream of liberation

David GraeberAnthropologist & Writer in Guardian Newspaper and Penguin Books
     

Sissy Doutsiou performed her poems shockingly once again while with the electronic sounds we were transported - for as long as it lasted - to another parallel universe.

Thekla TselepiRadio Producer
     

Sissy Doutsiou, in the leading role (Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka), gives a real recital of the whole physical approach of the suffering and crucified human, reaching the limits of acting self-sacrifice, not even hesitating to "crumple" herself brutally.

Leandros PolenakisTheater Critic (since 1978) - PhD Department of Mass Media and Cultural Management
     

A revolutionary poet of our era. Her poetry can operate simultaneously as a dream of liberation

David GraeberAnthropologist & Writer in Guardian Newspaper and Penguin Books
     

Sissy Doutsiou performed her poems shockingly once again while with the electronic sounds we were transported - for as long as it lasted - to another parallel universe.

Thekla TselepiRadio Producer
     

Sissy Doutsiou, in the leading role (Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka), gives a real recital of the whole physical approach of the suffering and crucified human, reaching the limits of acting self-sacrifice, not even hesitating to "crumple" herself brutally.

Leandros PolenakisTheater Critic (since 1978) - PhD Department of Mass Media and Cultural Management
     

A revolutionary poet of our era. Her poetry can operate simultaneously as a dream of liberation

David GraeberAnthropologist & Writer in Guardian Newspaper and Penguin Books
     

Sissy Doutsiou performed her poems shockingly once again while with the electronic sounds we were transported - for as long as it lasted - to another parallel universe.

Thekla TselepiRadio Producer
     

Sissy Doutsiou, in the leading role (Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka), gives a real recital of the whole physical approach of the suffering and crucified human, reaching the limits of acting self-sacrifice, not even hesitating to "crumple" herself brutally.

Leandros PolenakisTheater Critic (since 1978) - PhD Department of Mass Media and Cultural Management
     

A revolutionary poet of our era. Her poetry can operate simultaneously as a dream of liberation

David GraeberAnthropologist & Writer in Guardian Newspaper and Penguin Books
     

Sissy Doutsiou performed her poems shockingly once again while with the electronic sounds we were transported - for as long as it lasted - to another parallel universe.

Thekla TselepiRadio Producer
     

Sissy Doutsiou, in the leading role (Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka), gives a real recital of the whole physical approach of the suffering and crucified human, reaching the limits of acting self-sacrifice, not even hesitating to "crumple" herself brutally.

Leandros PolenakisTheater Critic (since 1978) - PhD Department of Mass Media and Cultural Management
     

A revolutionary poet of our era. Her poetry can operate simultaneously as a dream of liberation

David GraeberAnthropologist & Writer in Guardian Newspaper and Penguin Books
     

Sissy Doutsiou performed her poems shockingly once again while with the electronic sounds we were transported - for as long as it lasted - to another parallel universe.

Thekla TselepiRadio Producer
     

Sissy Doutsiou, in the leading role (Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka), gives a real recital of the whole physical approach of the suffering and crucified human, reaching the limits of acting self-sacrifice, not even hesitating to "crumple" herself brutally.

Leandros PolenakisTheater Critic (since 1978) - PhD Department of Mass Media and Cultural Management

Live Performance

THE VOYEUR

A voyeur woman organizes or observes sexual orgies in search of sensitivity and anticipation of pleasure. The domination of the erotic scene, the materialistic illusions of the Western world, the dizzying irritated men, corrupted girls, bodies that sacrifice, are delivered with innocence in the triumph of Dionysian fantasy.

Four contemporary poets from Athens