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Established in 1993, American Thymele Theatre (ATT) has remained committed to its mission of promoting and preserving Hellenic culture in the United States. The organization accomplishes this by producing performances centered on timeless Greek themes, offered free of charge to the public. ATT has showcased an array of Greek works, including a series of Athenian comedies in their original 19th-century Greek. The company's first production, a bilingual adaptation of George Kelly’s The Show-Off, was performed at the Kraine Theater in New York and other locations.

In 1995, ATT launched the Angelos Vlachos Comedy Festival, which ran for ten years and began with The Grocer’s Daughter at the Frederick Loewe Theatre in New York. The festival’s productions toured to cities such as Boston, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Connecticut. In 1999, The Grocer’s Daughter premiered in English in Baltimore, leading to additional tours across New York, including a dinner theatre engagement in 2000. ATT also revived Maxwell Anderson’s Barefoot in Athens in 2001 to celebrate the play’s 50th anniversary, coinciding with the Year of Socrates festivities. The production extended into the next season, offering performances for New York City public schools.

ATT, a non-profit organization with 501(c)3 status chartered by the State of New York, has introduced a variety of rare Greek theater productions to audiences in cities across the United States. Notably, its production of The Grocer’s Daughter was chosen for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. ATT continued to tour, premiering The Needy Barrister in St. Louis, Missouri, along with The Grocer’s Daughter, which became a touring favorite. The company’s repertory traveled to cities like Phoenix, Arizona, and returned to New York to stage Nikos Kazantzakis’ Kouros, which was also performed for public school audiences.

With support from the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation, ATT presented The Petrakis Universe at the New York Public Library, which later had an encore presentation at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. In 2016, ATT revived its series of 19th-century Athenian One-Act Comedies, with the Federation of Hellenic Societies sponsoring readings of Not Qualified and A Servant Is Sought. This series continued with Mourning Does Not Become Her in 2018 at the Bridge Theatre. ATT also presented workshops of classical-themed plays in its Spring Readings series, including The Father of Comedy (2020), A Season in Sparta (2021), and Hit-List: Cicero (2022). ATT was recognized as an honorary member of the sponsoring organizations for the 2021 bicentennial celebration of the Greek Revolution.

True to its mission of offering free Greek theater, ATT launched the New York Euripides Summer Festival, producing acclaimed renditions of Euripides’ works, including Rhesus (2009), Alcestis (2010), Medea (2011), and others. During the pandemic, ATT adapted to digital presentations, with notable productions such as Helen, screened at Columbia University, and Electra (2020). Prior to the pandemic, the festival’s productions were held at outdoor venues like the East River Park Amphitheatre (demolished in 2021) and others, including the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park and the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater.

ATT’s 2013 filmed performance of Hippolytus was later purchased by Brown University for educational purposes. The New York Euripides Summer Festival became an anticipated annual event, drawing diverse audiences and tourists. Following a three-year period of digital presentations due to the pandemic, the festival returned to live performances in 2023 at venues such as the Actors’ Temple Theatre, AMT Theater, and Marilyn Monroe Theatre, concluding with Bacchae, marking the completion of the festival’s goal to produce all of Euripides’ extant plays. The year 2023 also commemorated ATT’s 30th year as a touring company.

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