Book Presentation: The Complete Dramatic Work of Elena Penga - Volume I
Thessaloniki International Book Fair 2024 - May 18, 2024
Reading excerpts from Elena Penga’s early plays, included in her recently published book:
“The Complete Dramatic Work of Elena Penga - Volume I - The Early Plays 1989-2000”
Elena Penga
Playwright
Elena Penga was born in Thessaloniki. She studied theater and philosophy at Wesleyan University and screen and theater writing at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She staged her first plays in New York’s Off-Off Broadway scene and returned to Greece in the 90s. Since then her plays have been produced at the National Theater of Greece, National Theater of Northern Greece, the Athens Festival and Delphi among many other theaters. Her work has been translated into Dutch, Swedish, German, French, Italian and English, and performed in the United States, Portugal, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, and France.. She also wrote the screenplay for Lakis Papastathis’s award-winning film, The Only Journey of his Life. She teaches playwriting at the University of Patra, at the National Book Centre of Greece, and ITI Athens. Her plays are published by Nefeli Publishers. Her fiction is published from Agra Publishers. Her recent book Tight Belts and Other Skin is the winner of the Ouranis Prize from the Greek Academy of Letters (2012).