I hold a BA in Theatre from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2002-2007), a MRes in Drama (Distinction) from Royal Holloway, University of London (2007-2008), and a MA in Religion from the University of Chicago (2008-2010). I recently completed a PhD in Media & Cultural Studies at SOAS, University of London (2010-2015). My research, for which I spent fifteen months conducting fieldwork in Bali, Indonesia, brings cultural studies to bear on live and televised Balinese theatre and its audiences. I was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, UK (2015-2016) and at the University of Exeter, UK (2018). I am currently a full-time writer and the dramaturge of Adrift Performance Makers (@AdriftPM).

Publications

  • ​'Undesigning Sound: Diffused Listening in AdriftPM's Portable Soundscapes' with Konstantinos Thomaidis, Theatre and Performance Design Special Issue, ed. by Adrian Curtin and David Roesner (2016).
  • 'Portable Soundscapes: An Acoustic Travelogue by Adrift Performance Makers.' Body, Space & Technology Journal 15 (2016).
  • ‘How do we Approach a Foreign Culture? The Problems of Representation’, in Suardiana and Astawan (eds), Kearifan Lokal dan Pendidikan Karakter, Conference Proceedings IKIP PGRI Bali: 2012, 24-34.
  • ‘Overflowing Vessels’, Performance Research 14.4 (2009), 125-28.
  • ‘Hysteria and Trance: Performative Synergies’, Contemporary Theatre Review 19.2 (2009), 195-203. 
  • ‘A Queer Reading of Euripides’ Bacchae’, Platform E-Journal 3.1 (2008): 73-89. 
  • ‘The Silent Girl’. The Art of Drama in Education. A. Avdi and M. Hatzigeorgiou, eds. Athens: Metaihmio, 2007. 
  • Review: David Wiles, Greek Theatre Performance: An Introduction, Cambridge, 2000. The Books' Journal 3 (2011).

Awards

  • SOAS Research Scholarship (2010-13) & Additional Award for Fieldwork (2010).
  • Ouseley Memorial Scholarship 2011-13.
  • Fulbright Scholar, 2008-10.
  • 1st Prize at the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TAPRA) Postgraduate Essay Competition 2008.
  • MA Studentship (Drama & Theatre Department, Royal Holloway University of London, 2007-2008).
  • Scholarship by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) for undergraduate studies (2002-2005).
  • Greek Scientific Society Award (2003).
  • 1st Prize at the 3rd Ancient Greek Language Contest by the Foundation for the Internationalisation of the Greek Language (2002).

Conferences

  • 'Basa Bapak Bapak and What is the Point of Speaking?' A Symposium on How Indonesians Argue, Oxfordshire, July 2015.
  • ‘Do the Balinese have theatre?.’ Conference on Bali in Global Asia: Between Modernization and Heritage Formation. Denpasar, Indonesia, July, 2012.
  • ‘How do we Approach a Foreign Culture? The Problems of Representation.’ Invited speaker at Kearifan Lokal dan Pendidikan Karakter, IKIP PGRI Bali, February 2012.
  • ‘The Seriousness of Play and the Playfulness of the Serious: Ritual Violence in Asian Theatre.’ Regional AAR Meeting, Loyola University, Chicago, USA, April 2009.
  • ‘Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: Thoughts on the Religious Element.’ Reading Spiritualities, University of Lancaster, UK, January 2006.
  • Theatre scholar in residence at the workshop The mask in classical Japanese theatre by Abel Solares. Hellenic Festival, 2006.