- Kalaitzidou
- Despina
Despoina Kalaitzidou was born in Katerini, Greece. She studied English Language and Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and continued her studies in England and Ireland, completing postgraduate degrees in Literary Translation and Theatre in Education. She has taught at all levels of education, as well as at the Department of English Language and Literature, where she was seconded as a teacher.
She received the Second Greek State Award for Playwriting in 2010. Since 2003, she has organised theatre workshops and staged plays with university and school groups, as well as with professional theatre companies.
Her play Eleni or Soula received the Award in the Greek Play Project’s Write Your Myth playwriting competition.
PLAYS
Miss Chaos, 2019
Helen or Soula, 2015
Borkman/Danse Macabre (based on Henrik Ibsen’s “John Gabriel Borkman”), 2015
The Gum, 2013
A Tale of Two Cities (based on Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities”), 2013
The Burning Ones, 2010
Bereavement, 2009
Are the Dead Hungry? (based on Irvin Shaw’s “Bury the Dead”), 2009
Art for Art’s Sake, 2007
My Left Breast (and my Right Cat, 2006
The Last Move, 2005
Rain, 2003
Black and White, 2003