Maria G. Bairaktari is an Assistant Professor of Literary Translation at the Department of French Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she completed her PhD research (2009) with a scholarship of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) and entitled: The Translations of Marivaux’s Plays by Andreas Staikos and their Performances in Greece. She also completed her post-doctorate research at the Department of Theatre Studies (N.K.U.A., 2021), with a research focus on the interlinguistic-intercultural dimension of translation, the role of the stage director-translator as a creator and post-doctoral research title: Aeschylus’ Tragedies in the Modern French Language, Translated, Adapted and Directed by Olivier Py. She has taught Literary Translation, Theatre Semiotics and Creative Playwriting in undergraduate and postgraduate university Departments. Her recent research is focused on theory and practice of theatre translation, history and criticism of translation and on the role of the translator as recreator. She has also published translations from French into Greek, monographs, research articles in Greece and abroad, and three poetry collections.
Evdokia Delipetrou studied at the Royal Holloway University of London (M.A. in Theatre, Directing) and the Theatre Studies Department (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), where she completed her PhD research with the title Aspects of the Greek Identity in the Performance of History. National Theatre 1932-1967. She participated in the project “Digitization and promotion of the National Theatre’s archive” (2007), in the “Theatrical Annalogio 2005” and in the scientific projects “Performing Arts and Revolution 1821” (Centre for the Study of the 1821 Revolution, Historical Research and Documentation Laboratory, Department of History and Archaeology, N.K.U.A., 2021) and “Translations of Ancient Drama in the New Millennium” (Laboratory of Ancient Drama and Theatre Research, Department of Theatre Studies, N.K.U.A., 2023). She was a scientific collaborator in the program of digitalization of Rondiris Archive (2019) and the program of organisation of Katrakis Archive (2022), in the Municipality of Piraeus. She has been participating in projects and seminars of the Arc-Net (the European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama) since 2011. She has collaborated with performance groups, and she has also participated in the historical – performative project Sinevi stin Ellada (It happened in Greece) at the National Theatre of Greece (2017-2018). She also contributed in the publication Iakovos Kambanellis. The Innovative Greek Playwright (Ministry of Culture and Sports, 2022).
Eleftheria (Eri) Georgakaki is a graduate of the Department of Theatre Studies N.K.U.A. and an honors graduate (with a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation) of the master’s degree of the same Department, where she also undertook and completed, with unanimous honors, in 2018, her doctoral thesis entitled: TheReception of Euripides in Nineteenth Century Greece: Publishing, Translation and Theatre Activity. Her scientific interest is focused on the reception of ancient drama. As a dramatologist, she has worked at the Notos Theatre Company (Amore Theatre, 1999-2002), the National Theater of Greece (2002-2003), and the Municipality of Petroupolis (2003 until today), where she heads the Department of Culture and since 2020 has been the Artistic Curator of the Petras International Festival program. She has taught theatre education to children and adults, translated plays from the English language, and adapted literary works for the theatre. She was a member of the authors team for the digital disc of the Educational Program “Theatre and School” of General Secretariat of Youth (2002). Since 2014 she participates in scientific conferences (Greece, Oxford, Russia), while her studies have been published in scientific journals and publications of theatrical interest.
Anna Mavroleon studied Sociology at Panteion University and holds a PhD in Media Communication and Culture (PhD thesis title, 2003: The Management of Ancient Greek Drama by Modern Greek Society: The History of the Revival of Sophocles’ Antigone in Greece and the Oresteia), with research interests focused on issues of the reception of ancient drama, the methodology of theatrical research and cultural management. For several years she worked at the Centre for the Study and Research of the Greek Theatre - Theatre Museum, in the creation of a theatre database of archival material. She is a lecturer in the Postgraduate Studies Programmes: “Theatre and Society” at the University of Peloponnese, “Greek and World Theatre: Dramaturgy, Performance, Education” of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, “Creative Writing” of the Hellenic Open University. In the framework of the Athens Festival (2015) she was a dramaturgy consultant for the performance Electra - Last Blood. Author of the books: Research in Theatre - Issues of Methodology (ed. Sideris, 2010); On Revival - From Ancient Myths to the Myths of Theatre History (ed. I. Sideris, 2016). Member of the scientific team of the volume In the Footsteps of Dionysus - Performances of Ancient Tragedy in Greece 1867-2000 (ed. I. Sideris, 2005). She has written the plays: History did not love us. Kyriakos (2nd prize in the National Theatre of Cyprus one-act plays competition, 2013), The Promise (presented by the theatrical workshop “In Action” of the Municipality of Moschato-Tavros, 2014), Kalliopi (3rd prize in the competition “Silver Page”, 2016), The Last War (1st prize for text composition at the Distomo Festival, 2018). She runs the Art and Cultural Education Space in Nea Kifissia.
