Lena Kitsopoulou - Author, Lyricist
Born in Athens in 1971, she graduated from the Art Theatre Drama School in 1994 and has since then worked as a theatre and cinema actress.
Her first collection of short stories, Bats (Kedros Publishers) was first published in 2006 and won the Debut Author Prize of the Diavazo magazine.
Two more short stories collections followed since, Big Roads and Fish Eye (Metechmio Publications) as well as her work M.A.I.R.O.U.L.A., which was initially written as a monologue for the National Theatre and was translated in various foreign languages and performed in many theatres around the world (England, Spain, France).
Lena Kitsopoulou is a theatre writer and director. Her plays and other works are being presented by various theatre companies in Greece and abroad.
Her play Athanasios Diakos – The Return (Athens Festival, 2012) was awarded the 2013 International Authorprize in Stückemarkt, Heidelberg.
Her play Little Red Riding Hood – First Blood, which was performed in May 2014 at the Onassis Cultural Centre and the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, was also presented as reader’s theatre at the Saint Gervais Theatre in Geneva.
Her play A Day like Any day in a Flat (…) or The Futility of Living (Art Theatre, 2015) was performed in December 2016 at the Saint Gervais Theatre in Geneva.
In October 2016, her new work Antigone – Lonely Planet was presented at the Onassis Cultural Centre of New York and at the Public Theater in New York and in its new form it was presented again in January 2018 at the Onassis Cultural Centre and the Public Theatre in New York city.
In May 2017, she wrote and directed the play Tyrannosaurus Rex for the National Theatre Experimental Stage.
Apart from her own works, she directed works by Grigoris Xenopoulos ("Hail Nymph"), George Chronas ("The Woman of Patras"), Federico Garcia Lorca ("Damn Marriage", Athens Festival 2014), Duel by H.V. Kleist (Athens Festival). In February 2016 she directed Ibsen's "Eda Gambler" at the Theater Oberhausen in Germany and in February 2018 CRY at the Saint Gervais Theater in Geneva.
In December 2019 she made her first solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures at the Breeder Gallery entitled Between my Legs.
Since October 1st 2020, Lena Kitsopoulou is represented by Musicentry worldwide.
LYRICS
My Sun - lyrics: Lena Kitsopoulou, Nikos Kypourgos (''The Secrets of the Garden'' - Sirius)
Gaby - lyrics: Lena Kitsopoulou - music: Fotini Baxevani (''8 Women'' - Faos Music)
Souzon - lyrics: Lena Kitsopoulou - music: Fotini Baxevani (''8 Women'' - Faos Music)
Louise - lyrics: Lena Kitsopoulou - music: Fotini Baxevani (''8 Women'' - Faos Music)
Mammi - lyrics: Lena Kitsopoulou - music: Fotini Baxevani (''8 Women'' - Faos Music)
O chionanthropos (The snowman) - lyrics: Lena Kitsopoulou - music: Fotini Baxevani (''8 Women'' - Faos Music)
Kyria Chanel - lyrics: Lena Kitsopoulou - music: Fotini Baxevani (''8 Women'' - Faos Music)
Augousta (O odyrmos tiw Augoustas) - lyrics: Lena Kitsopoulou - music: Fotini Baxevani (''8 Women'' - Faos Music)
To fili - lyrics: Lena Kitsopoulou - music: Fotini Baxevani (''8 Women'' - Faos Music)
The trauma - lyrics: Lena Kitsopoulou - music: Doros Demosthenous
Identity - lyrics: Lena Kitsopoulou - music: Angelos Triantafyllou (Dangerous age)
It is love - lyrics: Lena Kitsopoulou - music: Angelos Triantafyllou (from the play "Golfo" by N. Karathanos)
Rap Koronoiou - lyrics: Lena Kitsopoulou - music: Panos Manouilidis (from the play ''Erotikes cart postal from Greece'')
Interlude - lyrics: Lena Kitsopoulou - music: Marina Satti
Cretan - lyrics: Lena Kitsopoulou - music: Marina Satti
THEATRE
MY GREEN DRESS (monologue)
Μ.Α.Ι.Ρ.Ο.Υ.Λ.Α. (theatre monologue - Translations: English, Catalan, Spanish, French and German)
ATHANASIOS DIAKOS - THE RETURN (Translation: German - Internationaler Autorenpreis Award 2012)
RED HAT - THE FIRST BLOOD (Translations: German, French)
TYRRANOSAURS REX
ANTIGONE - LONELY PLANET (Translations: English, French)
AUSTRAS OR THE WILD
ONE DAY LIKE EVERY DAY IN AN APARTMENT FROM THE THOUSANDS OF APARTMENTS IN ATHENS WITH THE COMFORTABLE SOFAS AND THE FRAMES WITH SAFETY IN THE STATE
CRY (Translation: French)
FOUR MONTHS OF ABSENCE (single act)
THE PRICE - THE PRICE (solo - Translations: English, Spanish)
N-EURO - SIS (single act)
LITERATURE - PUBLICATIONS
Μ.Α.Ι.R.Ο.Υ.L.Α. (KEDROS publications)
BATS (KEDROS publications)
NIETOPERZE (GRECKIE KLIMATY publications)
MAJORI ROADS (METAICHMIO publications)
THE EYE OF THE FISH (METAICHMIO publications)
Participations in short stories:
Judas or The Last Supper - THE BOOK OF EVIL (Magic Box publications)
Sunday Noon - THE VAULT HIDDEN STORIES (APOPIRA publications)
Dimitroula - AGONI GRAMMI (published by ATHENS VOICE)
Erotic Postcards from Greece (Theater 2020)
House of Letters & Arts of Onassis Foundation Small stage
Μ.Α.Ι.R.Ο.Υ.L.Α. Marathon (Theater 2019)
Bios basement
Karaflobekatsos and Spyridoula (Theater 2018)
Station
Μ.Α.Ι.R.Ο.Υ.L.Α. (Theater 2018)
Bios basement
Karagiozis (Theater 2017)
"Michalis Kakogiannis" Foundation black box
Mounis (Theater 2017)
Piraeus 260
Tyrannosaurs REX (Theater 2017)
Experimental Stage - Rex Theater - "Katina Paxinou" Stage
My green dress (Theater 2017)
Concrete 7
Lonely Planet Antigone (Theater 2017)
House of Letters & Arts of Onassis Foundation Small stage
The catastrophe (Theater 2016)
SKROW
My green dress (Theater 2016)
Alcmene
Μ.Α.Ι.R.Ο.Υ.L.Α. (Theater 2016)
Theater T.
My Green My Dress (Theater 2016)
Theater T.
Happy M.A.I.R.O.Y.L.A. (Theater 2016)
Foundry
Μ.Α.Ι.R.Ο.Υ.L.Α. plus + (Theater 2016)
On Kolono Main stage
One day, as every day, in one of the thousands of apartments in Athens, those with their safety frames and comfortable sofas, in amok condition. Or the futility of living. (Theater 2015)
Small Pallas
Little Red Riding Hood - The First Blood (Theater 2014)
House of Letters & Arts of Onassis Foundation Small stage
"Xenos": Invisible Olga, Austras or I Agriada (Theater 2012)
National Theater
Athanasios Diakos-The return (Theater 2012)
Piraeus 260
"Stranger": Invisible Olga, Austras or The Wild (Theater 2011)
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