Amanda Michalopoulou: “Words Save”
12/02/2026
Theodoros Grigoriadis: “School, Memory and Place”
12/02/2026
Ioanna Lioutsia
Ioanna Lioutsia was born in Thessaloniki in 1992. She holds a PhD from the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Peloponnese, with a dissertation on performance art in the Balkans and its political dimensions. She is a graduate of the Departments of Theatre and History-Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) and the "Contemporary Theatre B. Diamantopoulos" Drama School.
She is a co-founder of the street-writing group "grafoules." She works as an actress, director, dramaturg, and drama educator. She has published five poetry collections: Conversations in B flat (Synomilies se Mi+, Ars Poetica, 2014), Arrhythmias (Arrythmies, private edition, 2016), Silence in Two Spaces (I Siopi se dyo chorous, Oropedio, 2018), Open Vowels and Bitten Consonants (Anoichta fonienta kai dagkomena symfona, Thraka, 2022), and Urban Agony (Astiki Agonia, Thraka, 2025).
Her theatrical work includes the play Atlas of the 2000s (Antipodes, 2024 – co-authored with P. Flatsousi & P. Konstantinakou), the musical fairy tale The Little Draculas with music by Th. Bililis (Dodoni, 2024), and the collection of plays for children 12 Sketches for 19 World Days (Sofia, 2021). She has also translated Henrik Ibsen’s works St. John's Eve (Dodoni, 2023) and Norma or A Politician's Love (Dodoni, 2020), and has published a study on audio theatre in Germany.
Program Overview
This is a literary performance workshop focusing primarily on contemporary poems that tackle gender issues. Through experiential activities, we will approach the diverse perspectives each poem offers on the subject.
After first establishing the theoretical foundations of literary performance, we will then utilize theatrical exercises, drama-in-education techniques, improvisations, and materials from every field of art and social life, in an attempt to transform the written word into a performance setting.
Upon completion of the sessions, the workshop group will have acquired a diverse toolkit of techniques that they can freely adapt, together with their teacher, according to their needs. This will enable them to utilize these resources to create their own literary performance.
Suggested Bibliography
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Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Per For Mance (Epi I telesi), Nissos Publications
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Areti Leopoulou, Beneficial Parasites: Approaches to the Everyday by Leda Papakonstantinou / Alexandra Katsiani and Thanasis Chondros / Giorgos Tsakiris, Futura Publications
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Karen Van Dyck (ed.), Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry, Agra Publications
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Ioanna Lioutsia, Urban Agony (Astiki Agonia), Thraka Publications
