Sofia Kapsourou is a playwright, director, lyricist and actress. She grew up in Argos, Greece. She is a graduate of the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and of the Iasmos Drama School.

She is the first Greek artist to have received the following international theatre awards in Turkey: the Art Bridge Award from Sahne Tozu Tiyatrosu, Izmir’s largest theatre (2025; the first award presented in the history of the institution); the International Achievement Award (2024, 17th Türkiye Theatre Festival); and the International Theatre Award (2024, 9th International Anatolian Theatre Awards), in recognition of her body of artistic work and her contribution to theatre in Greece and internationally. The awards were presented in connection with her theatrical monologue Karaiskakena, the Legend, written and performed by Kapsourou and directed by Dimitris Karatzias.

She has represented Greece and contemporary Greek playwriting internationally, including at the “Vasile Alecsandri” National Theatre in Iași, Romania, as part of the Iași National Theatre Days; at the Eurasian Theatre Association Meetings in Maltepe, Istanbul (2024 and 2026); and at the Silence Teatro Festival in Lovere–Bergamo, Italy. She is an active member of the Eurasian Theatre Association (ETA), representing Greece.

Her plays have been staged, awarded, translated and published both in Greece and abroad, and have been used as material for academic research and study.

She has collaborated with the National Theatre of Greece (Schumann, directed by Lefteris Giovanidis), the National Gallery – Nafplion Annex, the National Theatre of China (The Orphan of Zhao), the Turkish State Theatres, the Athens Concert Hall, the Municipal and Regional Theatres (DI.PE.THE.) of Patras and Serres, the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, Technopolis City of Athens, the Conference and Cultural Center of the University of Patras, the Katina Paxinou Theatre at Attiko Alsos, and the Choir of the Friends of the Municipal Conservatory of Argos. She has also collaborated with major independent venues and organisations, including Pallas Theatre, the Foundation of the Hellenic World, Katerina Vasilakou New Theatre, Ivi Theatre, Poli Theatre, Train at Rouf, Vault Theatre Plus and Fatum the Theatre, among others.

Her work has been presented at international festivals including the Nodar Dumbadze International Theater Festival (2025, Ozurgeti, Georgia), International Monodrama Festival “Albamono” (2025, Pogradec), Türkiye Theatre Festival (2024, Efes Selçuk & Pamucak), Istanbul Women Playwrights International Theatre Festival (2023, Istanbul, Turkish State Theatres), Napoli Teatro Festival (2019, Naples), Giortes Rokkas (2021, Chania), Grito de Mujer International Festival (2016), Karya Artemisia Festival (2024), and World Theatre Day – Theatre Week (2016 and 2019, Veria). Her plays have also been performed at monuments, historical sites and archaeological locations in Greece, including the Pyramid of Hellenikon in Argolis and the Kapodistrian Barracks in Argos.

As a lyricist, she collaborates with composer Minos Matsas and Minos-EMI. Her work includes the song Eftychia for the film of the same title, directed by Angelos Frantzis; Istoria for the television series The Pantheons, directed by Spyros Michalopoulos; Pes mou pou eisai for the television series The Bracelet of Fire, directed by Giorgos Gikapeppas; E! File for the television series Komanda kai Drakoi, directed by Thodoris Papadoulakis; songs for the film Fantasia, directed by Alexis Kardaras; Mystiko sou for the stage production of Grigorios Xenopoulos’s The Secret of Countess Valeraina, directed by Petros Zoulis; songs for Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck, directed by Stavros Tsakiris; Strovilos einai i zoi for Kostas Tachtsis’s The Third Wedding Wreath, directed by Konstantinos Markoulakis; and songs and choral pieces for Alexandros Rizos Rangavis’s The Wedding of Koutroulis, directed by Smaragda Karydi, among others.

As a director, she has staged her own plays as well as musical theatre productions. Her directing credits include Hypermnestra at the Ancient Theatre of Argos for the Municipality of Argos–Mycenae Cultural Summer 2026; Theophrastos Sakellaridis’s The Godson, conducted by Giorgos Galanis with the Hellenic Sinfonietta at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus and the Conference and Cultural Center of the University of Patras; Sofia: How Sofia Became Vembo, How Vembo Became the Voice of Greece, conducted by Giorgos Galanis with the Hellenic Sinfonietta at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus; Gynantra at Giortes Rokkas; Sexton and the Coyotes at Vault Theatre; and Mistresses on Canvas at Dia Dio Theatre. She has also directed her plays for children, Journey with the Musicopter and Mr Pneumonas, with the Loutraki Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Pelopidas Mavropoulos, at the Alexandreio Convention Centre in Loutraki.

As an actress, she has performed in her own plays Mistresses on Canvas, Sexton and the Coyotes, Gynantra, Karaiskakena, the Legend and Hypermnestra, as well as in works from the classical and contemporary repertoire. Her credits include Picnic, an operetta by Theophrastos Sakellaridis, directed by Stathis Livathinos and conducted by Giorgos Petrou at the Athens Concert Hall; Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, directed by Takis Tzamargias at the Vasilakou Theatre; Yvonne Metaxaki’s Empty Room, directed by Anastasia Koumidou for DI.PE.THE. Patras; John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, directed by Takis Tsarsitalidis at the Bousoulopouleio Theatre of Argos; and Euripides’ The Bacchae, directed by Manos Vakousis at Alekton Theatre, among others.

She participated in Krzysztof Warlikowski’s International Workshop on the Odyssey at the Athens Epidaurus Festival.

She teaches playwriting, dramaturgy and acting at the University of the Peloponnese, in the postgraduate programme Creative Writing, Theatre and Cultural Industries, as well as at drama schools, including in recent years the Ritsos Drama School, theatre organisations, international workshops and seminars. She has delivered masterclasses on ancient drama and her own playwriting at institutions and events including the Scuola d’Arte Drammatica in Cagliari, Sardinia, Sahne Tozu Tiyatrosu and the Türkiye Tiyatro Buluşması in Izmir, where she has taught for three consecutive years.

She has also collaborated as an instructor with Synergies of Culture and The Outreach Project 1, 2, 3, an innovative playwriting project promoting diversity and acceptance as both a social value and an enduring challenge, while highlighting contemporary Greek playwriting.

Her artistic and research interests focus on representations of female identity across time and on its transformations throughout the centuries. Poetic theatrical language has a central place in her work.

PLAYS

Hypermnestra, 2026
The Seas of the Pelasgians, 2025
Once Upon a Voice…, 2023
Agapornis, 2023
Mr Pneumonas, 2023
Journey with the Musicopter, 2022
Elafontaine: Aesop Otherwise, 2022
Sofia: How Sofia Became Vembo, How Vembo Became the Voice of Greece, 2022
Karaiskakena, the Legend, 2022
Gynantra, 2021
Chanel, 2020
Strike, 2019
Viscose, 2019
Sexton and the Coyotes, 2018
Schumann, 2017
Mistresses on Canvas, 2011