Born in Greece, Penny Fylaktaki is a playwright, scriptwriter and translator.\u00a0 She holds a BA (Honours) in English Literature from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an MA in Translation (Distinction) from the University of Surrey, UK and a PhD in Theatre Translation and Cultural Studies from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has attended a long-distance study programme on Creative Writing at the College of Creative Arts, Manchester, UK, a series of seminars on \u201cScreenwriting\u201d at the International Film Festival of Drama and a one-year course in playwriting at the ITI Institute of Athens.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
So far, she has written 17 theatre plays and three film scripts. She has been awarded the National Prize for Playwrights by the Greek Ministry of Culture (2004) and the 1st PanHellenic Playwriting Competition Award by the Screenwriter\u2019s Guild of Greece (2017). She has represented Greece in the Forum of Contemporary Dramaturgy \u201cTribute to the Balkans\u201d at the Hellenic Centre of ITI (2014) and the Greek Play Project New York (2018). 11 of her plays have been staged since 2004 in Athens, Thessaloniki, in many cities all over Greece as well as in London, Oxford and New York.\u00a0 Her plays \u201cThe Championship\u201d, \u201cThe Building\u201d, \u201cSo What?\u201d, \u201cGreek History Lessons\u201d, \u201cLucrezia: Sinner and Saint\u201d, \u201cLike Father Like Son\u201d and \u201cSeaweeds\u201d have been translated in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n
Her feature length film Luger is currently in post-production opening, while her adapted screenplay from the novel \u201cMachiavellian Love\u201d is in the pre-production stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since 2001 she has been teaching Playwriting, Creative Writing and Literary Translation at the Creative Writing Postgraduate Programme at the University of Western Macedonia, in the Postgraduate Programme of Creative Writing in the Hellenic Open University, in the Department of English Language and Literature, AUTH, and in the Postgraduate Programme \u201cLanguage, Literature and Intercultural Studies in the French and European world\u201d at the School of French Literature and Language, AUTH.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She lives in Athens and has two daughters.<\/p>\n
More:\u00a0www.panagiotafylaktaki.gr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n PLAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n Lucrezia: Sinner and Saint, 2018<\/p>\n Lava, 2018<\/p>\n Swan Lake: The Legend, 2017<\/p>\n Seaweed on the bottom, 2017<\/p>\n Peppa’s dream, 2016<\/p>\n Seven, 2016<\/p>\n Peter Pan and Princesses – The Magic Filter, 2015<\/p>\n The Kid, 2015<\/p>\n The Name and the grace, 2014<\/p>\n My beloved family,\u00a02013<\/p>\n The Building, 2012<\/p>\n Like Father Like Son, 2012<\/p>\n A crepe for the gallows, please, 2011<\/p>\n Contemporary Greek History Classes, 2009<\/p>\n Lysistrata 2017, 2007<\/p>\n The Will,\u00a02004<\/p>\n The Championship, 2004<\/p>\n So, What?, 2002<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 5f8deb5332263pefilpic.jpg<\/p>\n Born in Greece, Penny Fylaktaki is a playwright, scriptwriter and translator.\u00a0 She holds a BA (Honours) in English Literature from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an MA in Translation (Distinction) from the University of Surrey, UK and a PhD in Theatre Translation and Cultural Studies from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has attended a long-distance study programme on Creative Writing at the College of Creative Arts, Manchester, UK, a series of seminars on \u201cScreenwriting\u201d at the International Film Festival of Drama and a one-year course in playwriting at the ITI Institute of Athens.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n So far, she has written 17 theatre plays and three film scripts. She has been awarded the National Prize for Playwrights by the Greek Ministry of Culture (2004) and the 1st PanHellenic Playwriting Competition Award by the Screenwriter\u2019s Guild of Greece (2017). She has represented Greece in the Forum of Contemporary Dramaturgy \u201cTribute to the Balkans\u201d at the Hellenic Centre of ITI (2014) and the Greek Play Project New York (2018). 11 of her plays have been staged since 2004 in Athens, Thessaloniki, in many cities all over Greece as well as in London, Oxford and New York.\u00a0 Her plays \u201cThe Championship\u201d, \u201cThe Building\u201d, \u201cSo What?\u201d, \u201cGreek History Lessons\u201d, \u201cLucrezia: Sinner and Saint\u201d, \u201cLike Father Like Son\u201d and \u201cSeaweeds\u201d have been translated in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n Her feature length film Luger is currently in post-production opening, while her adapted screenplay from the novel \u201cMachiavellian Love\u201d is in the pre-production stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n Since 2001 she has been teaching Playwriting, Creative Writing and Literary Translation at the Creative Writing Postgraduate Programme at the University of Western Macedonia, in the Postgraduate Programme of Creative Writing in the Hellenic Open University, in the Department of English Language and Literature, AUTH, and in the Postgraduate Programme \u201cLanguage, Literature and Intercultural Studies in the French and European world\u201d at the School of French Literature and Language, AUTH.\u00a0<\/p>\n She lives in Athens and has two daughters.<\/p>\n