Dr. Leonidas Papadopoulos was born in Thessaloniki. He was awarded his doctorate from Kings College London/UK in 2016 (Scholarship by Onassis Foundation and the Greek State Scholarship Foundation).
He taught Theatre History at the Department of History, Ionian University/ Greece, Theatre Directing, Ancient Greek Drama, and
Performance Analysis in undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
He participated as a dramaturge in National Theatre of Greece’ history project It happened in Greece (2016-2018) and in Contemporary Greek Play Festival at Municipal Theatre of Piraeus (2017-2020). Member of the research team focuses on the reception of US and European crime films in Greece from the post-war period until today (Prof. Eva Stefani and Dr Anna Poupou) He was a member of the organizing committee of the European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama/ Arc-Net (2009-2017).
His main research interests focus on ancient Greek drama and stage directing. His credits, as a director, include a string of critically acclaimed productions such as Endgame by Samuel Becket, Little Eyolf by Henrik Ibsen, The Double Bass by Patrick Suskind, Bury the Dead by Irwin Shaw, The Thrill of Love by Amanda Wittington, Sofia by Ignacio Garcia May, Donna abbandonata or You really disappointed me Mr George by Glikeria Basdeki, The Building by Panagiota Phylaktaki, Bakersfield Mist by Stephen Sachs, The Birds by Conor McPherson, One Day When we were young by Nick Payne, Pass-Port- Sea Journeys in Ancient Greek Tragedy (the performance was based on his doctoral thesis and was funded by the Ministry of Culture), Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang, California Dreamin’ by Vasilis Katsikonouris,. He also worked as an actor with directors as Robert Sturua, Nikita Milivojevic, Slobodan Unkovski and Michalis Kakogiannis. He is artistic director of Athens-based In-Between Art Theatre Company.
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