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Costumes symbolized social status, age, gender, and age of a character.
Athenian character wore decorated types of their everyday clothes. Character that were non-Athenians costumes were outlandish. Tragic actors put buskins on their feet to give them a higher social status. Comic actors wore plain socks, because they did not have a higher social status.A buskin is a raised platform shoe

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The masks in Greek theater were usually made of stiffened linen, wood, cork, or leather. When the masks needed hair, it would be made from either human hair or animal hair. Because of these materials the mask were not durable.
The masks wold have exaggerated expressions. Using different masks, an actor could change roles, and gender.
In comedy plays the masks were ugly. In tragedies the masks were more life like, and had hair.

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Greek tragedy began around 532 BC, it was created in the city Athens.
Greek Comedy started in the 6th century BC

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The seats in the Theatron/ Koilon were wrapped around the area that the orchestra played. The actors perform in front of the skene. The skene is the place that the actors change their masks and costumes. Over time, the skene started to become a background for the plays.

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By Aristophanes:
Lysistrata, The Knight, and Plutus

By Euripides:
The Cyclops, Medea, and Helen

By Sophocles: The Trojan Women, Ajax, Oedipus at Colonus.

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Thespis: He is the first ever known actor.
Sophocles: Sophocles wrote around 123 plays in his life time, but only seven are left. He was one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work is still around.
Euripides: Nineteen plays that he has written have been saved. He was also a tragedian.
Aeschylus: He wrote approximately seventy four plays, only seven are preserved today