An Interview with Stratis Panourios

Stratis Panourios is a professional theatre director, filmmaker, actor and author. He has written plays, short stories, poetry, essays and screenplays for the cinema. He studied film directing at the University of Greenwich, London – New York College Athens and theatre directing and acting at the National Theater of Greece. He collaborated with a diverse range of major theatres across the world, and has directed more than 50 theatre performances and many short films. Since 2016, he has run 1^st Theatre Workshop by the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus & National Theatre of Greece in collaboration with Korydallos Prison in Athens and Anti-Crime Policy. He received the award from the international English magazine “Acquisition International” for its entire work: “Business Excellence Winner—Theater Director of the Year 2018—Greece.” He teaches Applied Theatre at the National and Kapodistrian Univeristy of Athens. More information: https://stratispanourios.gr/

Magdalena Cieślak is Professor in the Department of English Studies in Drama, Theatre and Film at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Lodz, Poland. She specializes in Renaissance drama, especially Shakespeare, and the relationships between literature and contemporary popular media in the context of cultural studies. She works in the areas of cultural materialism, feminism, gender studies, queer theory and posthumanism, and researches the intersections of literature and media in those theoretical contexts. She is the author of Screening Gender in Shakespeare’s Comedies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).