ELENA
STAMATOPOULOU
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PERSONAL DETAILS:
Surname: Stamatopoulou
Name: Elena
Father’s name: Georgios Stamatopoulos
Mother’s name: Christina Papadopoulou
Address: Delfon 143 54248 Thessaloniki
Telephone number: +306974708273
E-mail: el_lilith@yahoo.com
Date of birth: 21/7/1973
2018 till now
Post doc research in progress with title “Manos Katrakis and the Greek Popular Theatre” Drama School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2017-2019
Postgraduate studies in the program Historical Research, Teaching and New Technologies in the History and Information Technology Department, Ionian University.
Grade 9.38/10. “Excellent”. Dissertation titled: “Political Farce-Comedy as Resource
for the Teaching of History. The case of Civil War (1944-1949)”.
Grade 9.5/10 “Exceptional”.
2009-2017
Completion of thesis titled: “Modern Greek Theatre during the Post-war Year (1944-1967)” in the School of Drama of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
2009: Following a written competition, scholarship holder
of the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) for the completion of doctorate thesis.
Available in greek: https://ikee.lib.auth.gr/record/294798/files/GRI-2017-20463.pdf
2009-2011
Attendance of the post-graduate program of the School of Drama
of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
2005-2008
Graduate of the School Drama of the Faculty
of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Score: 8.72/10 “Exceptional”.
1993-2004
Graduate of the Information Technology Department
of the School of Technological Applications of Thessaloniki. Score: 6.7/10 “Good”.
1997-2000
Graduate of the Private School of Cinemaand Television “Parallaxi”.
1991
Graduate of the Greek-French Secondary School “College DE LA SALLE“.
Score: 18/20 “Very Good”.
EDUCATION AND STUDIES
Foreign languages
Foreign Language 1:
Certificate of Proficiency in English University of Cambridge
First Certificate in English University of Cambridge
Foreign Language 2:
Certificat de langue francaise College De la salle
2006 - date:
Tenured post in the Secondary Education on Information Technology and Theatrology.
She served 3 1/2 years in High School in Koufonisia island. (2013-2016)
School of Drama of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, on secondment (2017-2019).
2004 - 2006: Hourly-waged teacher in Extended Schedule Primary Schools.
Working experience
Primary Education: Computer science and theatre lessons.
Secondary Education: Computer science, theatre and maths lessons.
Drama School: Methodology lessons in writing dissertations
and modern post war greek theatre history lessons.
Teaching experience
Academic experience
Announcements in conferences-Round Tables-Jury
Commitees-Articles-Publications
Announcement at the 6th Panhellenic Theatrical Conference “Theatre and Otherness”, Nafplio 17-20 May 2017. Title: “The image of the communist in the political farce-comedies of post-war era (1945-1967”.
Announcement at the Scientific Conference “Art in greek school. Present and future”, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11-13 Oct. 2018.
Title: “Theatrical play as historical source for teaching history. A methodological approach”.
Announcement at the 4th International Conference for the promotion of educational innovation“, Scientific Association for the promotion of educational innovation, Larisa,
12-14 Oct. 2018. Title: “Theatre and cinema as primary sources for teaching post-war modern greek history”. Published in conference minutes, vol. 1, pp. 1010-1015
Announcement at the Scientific Conference “The theatrical printed matter
from 19th to 21th century”, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 17-19 Jan. 2019.
Title: “The antiauthoritarian glance at the theatrical leaflet.
The case of Facta Non Verba Thessaloniki”.
Announcement at the 5th International Conference for the promotion
of educational innovation“, Scientific Association for the promotion of educational innovation, Larisa, 11-13 Oct. 2019.
Title: “Approaching history through theatre. An application in period
of German Occupation and National Resistance”.
Published in conference minutes, vol. 2, pp. 1532-1537
Announcement at the Scientific Conference “Political changeover 1974-1981:
Literature and cultural history”, Rethymno 15-17 Νov. 2019.
Title: “The management of the civil war trauma through two emblematic films
of political changeover period: Ο thiasos (The traveling players)
by Theo Angelopoulos (1975) and The man with the carnation by Nickos Tzimas(1980)”.
Lecture in the conference “In front of new challenges 2019:
Forming learning and democracy communities through theatrical experience”,
organised by Panhellenic Network for Theatre in Education, 1 Dec. 2019
Title: “Theatre and Democracy. Examples from post-war Greece».
Participation in round table “Theatre and German Occupation: feminine contribution
in art, education, Resistance”. 2nd Big Day 2018-2019 “Transfers Ι”
of Narional Theatre of Northern Greece 21 Jan. 2019.
Title: «National Resistance in modern postwar greek theatre
and the position of woman in it”.
Member of the committee jury at 4th International Conference for the promotion
of educational innovation“, Scientific Association for the promotion
of educational innovation, Larisa, 12-14 Oct. 2018.
Member of the committee jury at the 5th International Conference for the promotion
of educational innovation“, Scientific Association for the promotion
of educational innovation, Larisa, 11-13 Oct. 2019.
Member of the committee jury at International Scientific Magazine:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION.
Member of the committee jury at the Scientific Conferenc
“Suggestions of art and culture in education”, Regional Directorate of Central Macedonia, 22-24 Nov. 2019, Thessaloniki.
Publication of article in Drama School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki magazine Scene. Title: “The time of action: The intellect in the service of Greek Christian nationalism.
The correspondence of Eleni Ourani to the writer Roula Papadimitriou” (Under publication).
Publication of article in the magazine New Education.
Title: “December uprising and the beginning of the greek civil war through the current political comedy The Germans return by Sakellarios-Giannakopoulos”. (Under publication).
Publication:
1. Elena Stamatopoulou, The neogreek theatre in the years of cachectic democracy (1944-1967), vol. 1, Isnafi publications, Ioannina 2017.
https://service.eu-doxus.gr/search/#a/id:77119506/0.
2. Elena Stamatopoulou, The neogreek theatre in the years of cachectic democracy
(1944-1967), vol. 2, Isnafi publications, Ioannina 2020 (under publication).
Artistic experience
2002 - date:
Founding member, director and actress in the theatre group Facta Non Verba
in Thessaloniki. Staging of 35 plays and performances among which:
The Maids by Jean Jennet, Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Rockaby by Samuel Beckett, Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams, The Word Progress on my Mother’s Lips Doesn’t Ring True by Matei Visniec, Gagarin Way by Gregory Burke (first panhellenic premiere), The Investigation by Peter Weiss, Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, The Parade by Loula Anagnostaki, Jordan by Anna Reynolds and Moira Buffini etc.
Organisation of drama workshop, drama seminars and the Libertarian Festival
of Theatrical Expression. Organisation and collaboration with the anarchopacifist
american group “The Living Theatre” of a three-day theatrical action workshop against
the european conference of the ministers of culture of the EU in May 2003.
As of the fall of 2017 she has began working on a research experimental project on the greek civil war (1944 – 1949).
(For Facta Non Verba see factanonverba2002.blogspot.com https://www.face-book.com/factanonverba2002/ )
2013 – 2016:
Director and animateur of the High School theatre group of Koufonisia island in Greece. Staging of three plays: Troades (Trojan Women) by Euripides (participation
in the International Festival of Messini 2014), My nationality is the colour of the wind
by Matei Visniec (Koufonisi, May 2015), and Rockaby by Samuel Beckett (Koufonisi,
May 2016).
Managing director of the participation of the Koufonisia High School choir in the International School Choirs Festival in Karditsa, Greece 2015. Supervisor of the creation
of digital short movie with the cinema group of the High School of Koufonisia in 2014 titled No Man’s Land, which featured in the Digital Short Movie School Festival, in the Camera Zizanio Festival and was broadcast on the greek parliament television channel.
1999 – 2002:
Director of the Aristotle University Law School students’ theatre group Quinta. Staging
of the performances: Inferno, a composition with hell as its theme, based on plays by Jennet, Sartre, Boulgagov, Williams, and Shakespeare, Stories of Loneliness/ Solitude
and Addiction, based on texts by Beckett, Cocteau, and Philip Ridley, Camino Real
by Tennessee Wiliams, Quirks by Dacia Maraini and the performance What is This that I’ve Lost?
Participation in several drama seminars, such as the Physical Theatre in East 17, London, butoh dance with Gregor Weber, Thessaloniki, collective creation with The Living Theatre in Livorno, Italy, with Cesar Brie in the Udk University of Berlin, Ludvig Flassen and Ryszard Nieoczym in Thessaoniki.,
Experiential seminar organised by Primary Education Division of the Prefecture
of Chalkidiki, 9 March 2018. Title: “Activation with the use of theatrical tools”.
Workshop “Ιndividual and group. Democracy and collective creation” at the conference “In front of new challenges 2019: Forming learning and democracy communities through theatrical experience”, organised by Panhellenic Network for Theatre in Education, 1 Dec. 2019.
4 days acting and directing seminar organised by Facta Non Verba, .
Thessaloniki, 22-24 March 2018. Title: “Approaching the character”.
Columnist since 2002 in the theatrical fanzine Facta Non Verba under the nickname “Lilith”.
Personal interests
Theatre, cinema, political history, philosophy, literature, artistic activism for diversity
and human rights, yoga, meditation, astrophysics, music, travels.
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