Papayannakis Yorgos
Theatrologist, theatre critic, columnist and translator. One of the first graduate of the Theatre Studies Dept of the University of Athens, with postgraduate studies at the Université d’Artois, France. Holds a diploma in piano by the National Conservatoire. Member of the Hellenic Theatre Studies Association and the Union for Greek Drama & Music Critics, and member of the board of the Hellenic Centre of the International Theatre Institute. In ANALOGIO 2017, in the context of the Focus on Slovakian dramaturgy, he translated 3 Slovakian plays: Dodo Gombár’s Euroroom (directed by Eleni Georgopoulou), Viliam Klimáček’s The day Gagarin died (directed by Menelaos Karantzas) and Zuzana Uličianska’s Tagebuch (directed by Roubini Moschohoriti). The plays were published in a single volume by ANALOGIO and presented at Zappeion Hall as part of the collaboration with the 46th Book Festival