Internationally acclaimed theatre director Elli Papakonstantinou is an inspired orchestrator and visual artist, who reshapes the classics’ works into innovative theatre experiences. Her work is conversing with myths and politics integrating and balancing topics that concern her as an artist. Restless and inexhaustibly productive, she has built an extensive resume of striking performances and awards. She is the founder of ODC Ensemble company. During the pandemic lockdown, she experimented with queer digital performance named ‘Theater of Seclusion’ (Traces of Antigone & Hotel AntiOedipus). She has also created in situ work on collective trauma at concentration camps in Europe (Mauthausen, La Chartreuse/Camp des Milles, etc.). Her work has been presented at BAM NY (Brooklyn Academy of Music), IRCAM/Centre George Pompidou, Romaeuropa Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Operadagen Rotterdam Festival, Aalborg Opera Festival, Copenhagen Opera Festival, Stanford University, LaMaMa NY, National Theatre Genova, Neuköllner Oper Berlin and more. She has been commissioned by the Dramaten, Royal Theatre of Sweden (2021), and European Capitals of Culture (Eleusis 2021 & 23, Valetta 2018 and Pafos 2017 for big scale site specific productions.

Awards

Received the Fulbright Artist s Award twice:

- for the development of Oedipus: Sex with Mum was Blinding at Stanford University

- for research on performance and new technologies at Princeton University

2018-2019 Music Theatre NOW for The Cave

2020 AMAZONE Award for Traces of Antigone

Major work

2022 Eros

2021 ALKESTIΣ

2020 Traces of Antigone

2019 The Kindly Ones

2019 Oedipus: Sex with mum was blinding