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Eugenia Tzirtzilaki

Eugenia Tzirtzilaki studied Journalism, then Drama and earned an MFA on Theatre Directing from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, with scholarships from the Onassis Foundation and P.E.O. International. In NY she worked with seminal theatre makers Meredith Monk, Barbara Vann and Anne Bogart, became a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and was awarded the Zoel Zwick Award for Outstanding Contribution to Theater. Apart from Greece and the US, she’s also directed in Cyprus, Poland and Denmark, in both traditional venues and public spaces. She’s collaborated with dancers and visual artists in a wide spectrum of live arts performances and she is also a writer and translator. She was a founding member of the collective The Libby Sacer Foundation. Her lecture “Live Arts and Social Unrest: the Greek Crisis Case” dealing with the relationship of politics and performance, has been presented in Athens, Cluj (Romania), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Hong Kong (China), Vilnius (Lithuania), Adelaide and Sydney (Australia) and New York (USA).