Kyriaki Maria
Actor, writer. She studied piano and harmony at the Athens Conservatoire, acting at the Katselis School, filmmaking at the Stavrakos School and French Literature at the Institut Francais. She has played in films like Borderline by Panos Karkanevatos and Despina by Sotiris Goritsas, for which she won the first Female Role Award at the Film Festival of Thessaloniki, and in TV series and films. Her publications include four novels and three out of the 18 plays she has written. A screenwriter for TV movies, documentaries and series, she won the Drama Film Festival’s award for best screenplay for Hot dogs, directed by Dimitris Pantelias. She has been for over thirty years into education (Athens Conservatoire, “Rallou Manou” Dance School, “Isadora & Raymond Duncan Dance Research Center ”, Piraeus Union, etc.) and teaches seminars for Open Art and Script-net. She has directed five plays with the “Theater can kill” group. She participated in ANALOGIO 2015 with a text on Copi’s The four twins.