{"id":26698,"date":"2025-10-27T07:58:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/?p=26698"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:58:32","slug":"golfo-in-progress-ii-2025-2026-spyridon-peresiadis-playwriting-awards-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/en\/golfo-in-progress-ii-2025-2026-spyridon-peresiadis-playwriting-awards-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"GOLFO IN PROGRESS II 2025-2026 \u201cSpyridon Peresiadis\u201d Playwriting Awards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/brabeia-gkolfw.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26696\" style=\"width:146px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/brabeia-gkolfw.png 300w, https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/brabeia-gkolfw-293x300.png 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/en\/\">Theatre Laboratory of Drama and Speech<\/a>&nbsp;of the Department of Theatre Studies- University of Patras and the&nbsp; Golfo Festival with the support of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/topali.gr\/en\/\">Ionannis &amp; Efterpi Topali Cultural Foundation<\/a>, proudly announce the winners of the first panhellenic playwriting competition dedicated to Achaean playwright Spyridon Peresiadis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Launched for the first time in 2025, the awards aim to promote contemporary Greek dramaturgy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following a thorough review of fifty-five submissions, the judging committee praised the&nbsp;originality, theatrical craftsmanship, and poetic voicefound across the entries. Guided by criteria including the development of theatrical language, relevance to the competition\u2019s theme, and imaginative storytelling, the panel selected&nbsp;five exceptional plays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The winning plays will be staged by students of the National Theatre\u2019s Directing and Acting School and of the Department of Theatre Studies as well as members of the Theatre Laboratory of Drama and Speech and brought to life as&nbsp;staged readings by a new generation of actors . Audiences in&nbsp;Patras will have the chance to enjoy all five selected works in&nbsp;January 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AWARDS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First Prize \u2013 \u201cSpyridon Peresiadis\u201d Playwriting Awards<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>2025&nbsp;(jointly awarded)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Golf-\u03c9\u2014 Meropi Papastergiou<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lost Sheep in a Foreign Fold \u2014 Mavra Kazaki<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second Prize \u2013 \u201cSpyridon Peresiadis\u201d Playwriting Awards<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Three on Wrought Iron\u00a0\u2014 Konstantinos Lakis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Honourable Mentions \u2013 \u201cSpyridon Peresiadis\u201d Playwriting Awards<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Helmos 207\u00a0\u2014 Giannis Asdrachas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Would You Kill Yourself for Me?\u00a0\u2014 Georgia Stefanopoulou<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judging Panel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Akis Dimou \u2014 Playwright<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Giannis Kalatzopoulos \u2014 Actor &amp; Director<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lina Rozi \u2014 Associate Professor, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Patras.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BIOGRAPHIES OF AWARD RECIPIENTS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MEROPI PAPASTERGIOU<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meropi Papastergiou has been living and working in Athens since 2016 as an entrepreneur, actress, and translator. She graduated with honors in 2015 from Vassar College in the U.S. with a B.A. (hons) in Drama and Gender Studies. Since 2014, she has collaborated artistically with the One Year Lease Theater Company, based in New York, as a language specialist in their annual residency program held in Japan, India, and Papigo, where she developed her own method of teaching the Greek language to American theater students with the aim of performance. She has also worked as a copywriter and P.R. Associate at the online cinema platform Cinobo. She recently graduated with distinction from the M.A. program Creative Writing, Theatre, and Cultural Industries at the Department of Theatre Studies, University of the Peloponnese. As a playwright, her texts have been presented at Ataka Festival 2025 at the Kypseli Municipal Market, at the Greek Art Theatre\u2019s initiative Connecting Theatre Creators, as well as at the Light the City project of the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MAVRA KAZAKI<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mavra Kazaki was born in Thessaloniki in 2001. She graduated from the Department of Performing and Digital Arts of the School of Fine Arts at the University of the Peloponnese. At the same School, she completed her postgraduate studies in Creative Writing. She has worked as a costume and set designer for the theatre. Her first play, titled You Can\u2019t Buy a Smart Car and Turn It Into a Bus, was presented in 2024 in a staged reading at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation as part of her postgraduate program. Her theatrical monologue Carnivorous Plants \u2013 Vegetarian Humans is expected to be staged at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus and at the Analogio Festival in September 2025. She now lives in Athens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KONSTANTINOS LAKIS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a><\/a> Konstantinos Lakis works professionally in graphic design, painting, stage design, and writing. He has held 20 solo and 11 group painting exhibitions. His play Metaxia won 3rd prize in the \u201cNew Greek Play\u201d competition in 2018 at Theatro apo Koinou. His short story August Lombark was awarded and published in the anthology Antitheseis (IANOS 2019). His plays Mr. Rem and Metaxia were staged in 2019 and 2021 at ISON Theatre by THEAMA (Theatre of Disabled Artists). In 2021, he wrote the play Margiola for the Preveza Theatrical Workshop, staged at the Roman Odeon of Nikopolis and the ancient Necromanteion of Acheron. In 2022, his play The Behtsis \/ The Night Watchman won 1st prize in the competition Theatre at the Museum \/ Stories of Migration under the auspices of the Municipality of Athens and the Industrial Gas Museum. In 2023, for the Preveza Theatrical Workshop, he designed costumes and sets for The Chasm of Kassopi by Frederic Lenormand, at the modern-day reopening of the ancient theatre of Kassopi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GEORGIA STEFANOPOULOU<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Georgia (Gina) Stefanopoulou was born in Athens in 1990. After studying law at the Democritus University of Thrace, she pursued a specialization in Financial Law at the University of Southampton. Based in Athens, she works as a lawyer while also engaging in creative writing. As a playwright, she has authored several works, including The Horses of Diomedes, Comic Death, and Little Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GIANNIS ASDRACHAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Giannis Asdrachas was born in Lefkada. He is a journalist \u2014 a member of ESIEA (Union of Journalists of Athens Daily Newspapers) since 2007 \u2014 and for twenty years he worked in cultural reporting in the daily press, from the pages of Avgi to those of Express, documenting theatre, literature, visual arts, and cinema. He has collaborated with cultural institutions, most notably with Art Athina. He has also worked in press offices of ministries, the Hellenic Parliament, the Municipality of Haidari, and for art exhibitions. He has curated publications, including biographies and art albums. He travels, converses, takes notes; he calls himself a collector of stories that eventually find their way onto paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Theatre Laboratory of Drama and Speech&nbsp;of the Department of Theatre Studies- University of Patras and the&nbsp; Golfo Festival with the support of the&nbsp;Ionannis &amp; Efterpi Topali Cultural Foundation, proudly announce the winners of the first panhellenic playwriting competition dedicated to Achaean playwright Spyridon Peresiadis. Launched for the first time in 2025, the awards aim &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/en\/golfo-in-progress-ii-2025-2026-spyridon-peresiadis-playwriting-awards-2025\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOLFO IN PROGRESS II 2025-2026 \u201cSpyridon Peresiadis\u201d Playwriting Awards 2025<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26699,"href":"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26698\/revisions\/26699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esplo.theatrical.upatras.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}