Diane Morgan comes to the Main Stage of the Onassis Stegi for her first encounter with the Greek audience

The actress, writer, and director with a compelling career makes her first appearance before a Greek audience. Diane Morgan comes to the Main Stage for a conversation with Aphrodite Panagiotakou, bringing with her an entire world of caustic humour, unexpected stories, and revealing details.

A multiple BAFTA and Emmy nominee, Diane Morgan is perhaps best known for her portrayal of the satirical persona Philomena Cunk – from Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe, the biting television show by the creator of Black Mirror that skewered British pop culture, to Cunk on Shakespeare (BAFTA nominee), Cunk on Christmas, Cunk on Britain, and Cunk on Earth on BBC Two. Through this role, Morgan created the most famous mock-documentarian in British television, a character that became a global phenomenon. Diane Morgan makes her debut at the Onassis Stegi on January 7, on the Main Stage, to talk about everything, drawing on the absurd humour, unapologetic satire, and hilariously disarming naïveté that the times seem to demand.

Morgan was also the creator, writer, director, and star of the series Mandy (also on BBC Two), an eccentric, surreal comedy that began as a simple pilot episode in 2019 and went on to run for three seasons, becoming the channel’s most popular comedy that summer. She has also appeared as Liz in the BBC satire Motherland, as Kath in Ricky Gervais’s After Life on Netflix, as well as in the series Frayed (Sky/HBO Max), Intelligence, The Cockfields, and Rovers. In addition, she has featured in the international satirical specials Death to 2020 and Death to 2021 on Netflix, alongside Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Grant, and Lisa Kudrow.

Morgan’s path was anything but predictable: she worked as an Avon sales representative, a call-centre operator, and even a factory production-line worker packaging anti-parasitic pills before finding her way to the stage and screen as a comedian and actor – with enormous reach on TikTok. A trajectory that shows how the unexpected can become pure comedic material and evolve into a globally recognisable style.

The discussion will be held in English, with simultaneous interpretation into Greek and Greek Sign Language.