Elena Penga was born in Thessaloniki. She studied theater and philosophy at Wesleyan University and screen and theater writing at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She staged her first plays in New York\u2019s Off-Off Broadway scene and returned to Greece in the 90s. Since then her plays have been produced at the National Theater of Greece, National Theater of Northern Greece, the Athens Festival and Delphi among many other theaters. Her work has been translated into Dutch, Swedish, German, French, Italian and English, and performed in the United States, Portugal, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, and France.. She also wrote the screenplay for Lakis Papastathis\u2019s award-winning film, The Only Journey of his Life. She teaches playwriting at the University of Patra, at the National Book Centre of Greece, and ITI Athens. Her plays are published by Nefeli Publishers. Her fiction is published from Agra Publishers. Her recent book Tight Belts and Other Skin is the winner of the Ouranis Prize from the Greek Academy of Letters (2012).<\/p>\n
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PLAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n Woman and Wolf, 2013<\/p>\n Narcissus, 2011<\/p>\n Phaedra Or Alcestis- Love Stories, 2007<\/p>\n Who are our new friends?,\u00a0 2006<\/p>\n Nelly\u2019s takes her dog out for a walk, 2003<\/p>\n When the Go-Go Dancers dance, 2002<\/p>\n 3-0-1 TRANSPORTS, 2000<\/p>\n Emperor\u2019s New Clothes, based on Andersen\u2019s fairytale, 1999<\/p>\n Waltz Excitation, 1998<\/p>\n Kaethe Kollwitz presents a brief history of modern art, 1995<\/p>\n Gorky\u2019s Wife, 1995<\/p>\n A king listens, based on a short story by Italo Calvino, 1994<\/p>\n The Greek Alien & Poisons of the Sea, 1993<\/p>\n 6 Jealous Numbers, based on Othello by Shakespeare,1992<\/p>\n Don Surrealism, one-act, 1991<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n pega1.jpg<\/p>\n Elena Penga was born in Thessaloniki. She studied theater and philosophy at Wesleyan University and screen and theater writing at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She staged her first plays in New York\u2019s Off-Off Broadway scene and returned to Greece in the 90s. Since then her plays have been produced at the National Theater of Greece, National Theater of Northern Greece, the Athens Festival and Delphi among many other theaters. Her work has been translated into Dutch, Swedish, German, French, Italian and English, and performed in the United States, Portugal, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, and France.. She also wrote the screenplay for Lakis Papastathis\u2019s award-winning film, The Only Journey of his Life. She teaches playwriting at the University of Patra, at the National Book Centre of Greece, and ITI Athens. Her plays are published by Nefeli Publishers. Her fiction is published from Agra Publishers. Her recent book Tight Belts and Other Skin is the winner of the Ouranis Prize from the Greek Academy of Letters (2012).<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n PLAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n Woman and Wolf, 2013<\/p>\n Narcissus, 2011<\/p>\n Phaedra Or Alcestis- Love Stories, 2007<\/p>\n Who are our new friends?,\u00a0 2006<\/p>\n Nelly\u2019s takes her dog out for a walk, 2003<\/p>\n When the Go-Go Dancers dance, 2002<\/p>\n 3-0-1 TRANSPORTS, 2000<\/p>\n Emperor\u2019s New Clothes, based on Andersen\u2019s fairytale, 1999<\/p>\n Waltz Excitation, 1998<\/p>\n Kaethe Kollwitz presents a brief history of modern art, 1995<\/p>\n Gorky\u2019s Wife, 1995<\/p>\n A king listens, based on a short story by Italo Calvino, 1994<\/p>\n The Greek Alien & Poisons of the Sea, 1993<\/p>\n 6 Jealous Numbers, based on Othello by Shakespeare,1992<\/p>\n Don Surrealism, one-act, 1991<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Elena Penga was born in Thessaloniki. She studied theater and philosophy at Wesleyan University and screen and theater writing at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She staged her first plays in New York\u2019s Off-Off Broadway scene and returned to Greece in the 90s. Since then her plays have been produced at the National Theater of Greece, National Theater of Northern Greece, the Athens Festival and Delphi among many other theaters. Her work has been translated into Dutch, Swedish, German, French, Italian and English, and performed in the United States, Portugal, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, and France.. She also wrote the screenplay for Lakis Papastathis\u2019s award-winning film, The Only Journey of his Life. She teaches playwriting at the University of Patra, at the National Book Centre of Greece, and ITI Athens. Her plays are published by Nefeli Publishers. Her fiction is published from Agra Publishers. 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