Manousakis gained his footing in live theater while at Columbia College
in Chicago, where he studied composition with Gustavo Leone before
returning to study with Tim Ward and Andreas Mniestris at the Ionian
University in Corfu, Greece. Prior to his sojourn in Chicago,
Manousakis had already composed the music for several projects and was deeply engaged in both independent avant-garde theater
and in the popular theater of his native country. Since that time, he
has rarely been without a film or stage project and as a result has
embraced a wide variety of stylistic influences. He notes, “I found
that, through composing for music for the theater, I could explore
different paths of writing–from baroque music when composing for
Shakespearean plays to hard core electronica when composing for
independent shows.”
He is a co founder and Director of
ElectroMediaWorks, and a member of the
Medea Electronique synergy of Artist.
