Stella Papakonstantinou is a political and social scientist with a specialization in the Social Anthropology, Theatre and Literature of the Eastern Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa.
She has been working as a dramaturg, researcher and assistant director in theatre. She has collaborated with the Greek National Opera (Greece/Haiti 1821, 2021, Pilgrimages, 2021), the Athens and Epidaurus Festival (Clytemnestra: Chamber Music for One Instrument, 2021), the 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture (Mystery 34: Faces of Elefsina, 2023), the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation (The Bacchae, 2020), the Ministry of Culture’s Program All of Greece One Culture (Sparagmos: A study on Mourning, 2024, Ta Protoselida, 2022), the Aeschylia Festival in Eleusis (The Bacchae, 2012, Ajax, 2014, The Persians, 2015) and various private theatres. She has been a scientific associate of the Attiko School of Ancient Greek Drama since its foundation in 2012 and of the theatrical troupe Dromos me Dentra/Baumstrasse. She has studied Acting in the “delos”-Dimitra Hatoupi School of Dramatic Art. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, of the School of Oriental and African Studies and of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens’ MA in Cultural and Film Studies where she specialized in the cultural connections between Ancient Greek Drama and African Performative Arts. She is about to finish an MA in Theatre at the University of the Peloponnese, the NKUA and of the University of Lille in France.

Latest updated: 10/09/2024