Elsa Andrianou

She is a graduate of the Departments of History and Archaeology and Theatre Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has made numerous stage adaptations such as The Merchants of Nations (Alexandros Papadiamantis), Erotokritos (Vitsentzos Kornaros), The Iliad (Homer), Diaboliad (Mikhail Bulgakov), Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov) Demons (Fyodor Dostoyevsky), Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin), Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) etc. She has translated works such as The Trojan Women (Euripides), The Marriage of Figaro (Pierre Beaumarchais), The Maids (Jean Genet), Woe from Wit (Alexandr Griboyedov), The End of Casanova (Marina Tsvetaeva), Old Times (Harold Pinter) etc., and written the librettos Hera, The Man Who Laughs (Theo Abazis), The Air of Greece (George Tsontakis). Her play 154 Bertha has been performed at the Greek Art Theatre Karolos Koun. She has collaborated with important institutions such as National Theatre of Greece, Onassis Stegi, Greek National Opera, Megaron The Athens Concert Hall, Vakhtangov Theatre etc., and directors such as Stathis Livathinos, Theo Abazis, Cezaris Graužinis, Vangelis Theodoropoulos, Aris Troupakis, Lilly Meleme etc. She has been teaching dramaturgy since 1997. She has also served as Director of Studies at the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece. Her texts on theatre and theatre reviews have been widely published.