MARINA KOTZAMANI is an Associate Professor of Theater at the University of the Peloponnese, Greece. She has a doctorate in Theater from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has also studied Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT (M.Sc.) and University College London (B.A.). She completed her graduate work on fellowships from the universities where she studied, as well as from the Onassis Foundation She has published articles on the production and reception of classical Greek drama, as well as on the contemporary theater in internationally acclaimed journals including PAJ (MIT press), Theater/Yale School of Drama and Theatre Journal. Recent work includes “Lysistrata on Broadway” in Ancient Comedy and Reception: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson and “Under the starry night: Darkness, Community and Theatricality in Iannis Xenakis's Mycenae Polytopon” in Theatre in the Dark: Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre (Bloomsbury, 2017). Kotzamani taught full time for several years at the Classics Department of Columbia University and has also collaborated as a dramaturg with professional companies in New York City including CSC and La Mama. She has also been curating visual art exhibitions. In the current academic year she is a fellow of CHS of Harvard University.
