Xenia Kalogeropoulou\u00a0 was born in Athens and studied in London at the R.A.D.A.<\/p>\n
Returning to Greece, in 1959, she\u00a0 soon became a well known actress, having played\u00a0 in\u00a0 a great number of plays and\u00a0 films. She founded her own theatre company in\u00a0 1965.<\/p>\n
She has played leading parts in\u00a0 plays by\u00a0 Shakespeare, Tchekhov, Brecht, Goldoni, etc as well as\u00a0 by contemporary authors.<\/p>\n
In 1972 she founded a second company, the\u00a0 MIKRI PORTA (The Little Door) which performs for young audiences\u00a0 and is generally considered in Greece as the leading company in this field.<\/p>\n
Her first play Ulyssindbad<\/em> (Odyssevach<\/em>) was a huge success and is now considered\u00a0 a classic. It has been already produced 30 times by professional companies, in Greece and abroad, and innumerable times by amateur companies and schools.<\/p>\n Then she wrote two more plays which met with equal success. Eliza<\/em> (based on an Elizabethan play by Thomas Heywood and\u00a0 Sklavi<\/em> (The Son of the Slave)<\/em> (based on a folktale from the island of Simi) which\u00a0 received the Greek Theatre Critic\u2019s Prize\u00a0 as best play – in all categories- for the 2000- 2001 season.<\/p>\n In collaboration with the director Thomas Moschopoulos she wrote Beauty and the Beast<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Noah Family , The\u00a0 King Stag , <\/em>\u00a0Sleeping Beauty is awake, Paramithissimo and, The Lucky Soldier. <\/em><\/p>\n She also wrote the play Come come<\/em>, a play without words for toddlers and babies.<\/p>\n X.K\u00a0 has been awarded the prize of the Academy of Athens for her work as a writer.<\/p>\n She is living in Athens\u00a0 working in her own theatre \u201cPorta\u201d (\u201cThe Door\u201d) where she is producing plays for adults, as well as running the MIKRI PORTA.<\/p>\n PLAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n The King Stag, 2003<\/p>\n Sklavi (The Son of The Slave), 2000<\/p>\n The Noah Family, 1996<\/p>\n Beauty and the Beast, 1994<\/p>\n Bess (Eliza), 1989<\/p>\n Ulyssinbad (Odyssevach), 1981<\/p>\n kalogeropoulou.jpg<\/p>\n Xenia Kalogeropoulou\u00a0 was born in Athens and studied in London at the R.A.D.A.<\/p>\n Returning to Greece, in 1959, she\u00a0 soon became a well known actress, having played\u00a0 in\u00a0 a great number of plays and\u00a0 films. She founded her own theatre company in\u00a0 1965.<\/p>\n She has played leading parts in\u00a0 plays by\u00a0 Shakespeare, Tchekhov, Brecht, Goldoni, etc as well as\u00a0 by contemporary authors.<\/p>\n In 1972 she founded a second company, the\u00a0 MIKRI PORTA (The Little Door) which performs for young audiences\u00a0 and is generally considered in Greece as the leading company in this field.<\/p>\n Her first play Ulyssindbad<\/em> (Odyssevach<\/em>) was a huge success and is now considered\u00a0 a classic. It has been already produced 30 times by professional companies, in Greece and abroad, and innumerable times by amateur companies and schools.<\/p>\n Then she wrote two more plays which met with equal success. Eliza<\/em> (based on an Elizabethan play by Thomas Heywood and\u00a0 Sklavi<\/em> (The Son of the Slave)<\/em> (based on a folktale from the island of Simi) which\u00a0 received the Greek Theatre Critic\u2019s Prize\u00a0 as best play – in all categories- for the 2000- 2001 season.<\/p>\n In collaboration with the director Thomas Moschopoulos she wrote Beauty and the Beast<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Noah Family , The\u00a0 King Stag , <\/em>\u00a0Sleeping Beauty is awake, Paramithissimo and, The Lucky Soldier. <\/em><\/p>\n She also wrote the play Come come<\/em>, a play without words for toddlers and babies.<\/p>\n X.K\u00a0 has been awarded the prize of the Academy of Athens for her work as a writer.<\/p>\n She is living in Athens\u00a0 working in her own theatre \u201cPorta\u201d (\u201cThe Door\u201d) where she is producing plays for adults, as well as running the MIKRI PORTA.<\/p>\n PLAYS<\/strong><\/p>\n The King Stag, 2003<\/p>\n Sklavi (The Son of The Slave), 2000<\/p>\n The Noah Family, 1996<\/p>\n Beauty and the Beast, 1994<\/p>\n Bess (Eliza), 1989<\/p>\n Ulyssinbad (Odyssevach), 1981<\/p>\n Xenia Kalogeropoulou\u00a0 was born in Athens and studied in London at the R.A.D.A.<\/p>\n Returning to Greece, in 1959, she\u00a0 soon became a well known actress, having played\u00a0 in\u00a0 a great number of plays and\u00a0 films. She founded her own theatre company in\u00a0 1965.<\/p>\n She has played leading parts in\u00a0 plays by\u00a0 Shakespeare, Tchekhov, Brecht, Goldoni, etc as well as\u00a0 by contemporary authors.<\/p>\n In 1972 she founded a second company, the\u00a0 MIKRI PORTA (The Little Door) which performs for young audiences\u00a0 and is generally considered in Greece as the leading company in this field.<\/p>\n Her first play Ulyssindbad<\/em> (Odyssevach<\/em>) was a huge success and is now considered\u00a0 a classic. It has been already produced 30 times by professional companies, in Greece and abroad, and innumerable times by amateur companies and schools.<\/p>\n Then she wrote two more plays which met with equal success. 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