Sissy Doutsiou
urban rituals
erotic provocative
social awareness
Sissy Doutsiou is an actress and poet based in Athens, Greece. A spoken word artist, and curator. Her multimedia performances combine original spoken text with handcrafted ritual masks and creature figures born from the body's oldest knowledge of fear, protection, desire, and play. These hybrid beings where the boundary between the living and the non-living rooted in a single ethos: existential tenderness against the violence of normality, moving through personal experience, mythology, social resistance, and eroticism.

A pioneering figure of the Greek spoken word scene, performing in Greek and English, she has appeared at the 1st Athens Biennale, the Weimar Poetry Award, 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. She has toured in Asia, USA and Europe.