Athena Stourna

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Athena Stourna (PhD), is a scenographer, theatre and performance maker and researcher. She is Assistant Professor of Space, Scenography and Performance in the Department of Performing and Digital Arts of the University of the Peloponnese. Her research and artistic practice focus on performance space and design, as well as in the relationship between food, drink and cooking with theatre and performance. Athena is the author of the monograph La Cuisine à la scène : boire et manger au théâtre du XXe siècle (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011). She presents regularly at international conferences (IFTR – International Federation for Theatre Research, ASTR – American Society for Theatre Research, IEHCA – International Conference on Food History and Cultures). Her research has been published in international journals such as Critical Stages/Scènes critiques, Théâtre/public, ADE Teatro, P-E-R-F-O-R-M-A-N-C-E, and Platform: Journal for Theatre and Performing Arts. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid (2004) and at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University (2017). She is a grantee of the Friends of the Princeton University Library (2019) and an alumna of the Mellon School of Theatre and Performance Research at Harvard University (2016 & 2022). Athena is a member of the international group The Food Project, and the artistic director of the ‘Okypus Theatre Company’, a multicultural company active in Greece since 2007. Her work with these two groups has been presented at various international events, such as the World Stage Design 2013 and the 2015 Prague Quadrennial.

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