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 Greek National Theatre (After the Party, 2025) 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) and various private theatres. She has been a scientific associate of the theatrical troupe Dromos me Dentra/Baumstrasse founded by Martha Frintzila. She has studied Acting in the School of Dramatic Art “delos”-Dimitra Hatoupi. 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 and MA in Theatre Studies where she specialized in the cultural connections between Ancient Greek Drama and African Performative Arts. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Johannesburg in Anthropology and Theatre with a specialization on Ancient Greek Drama and ritual.