Epidaurus Encounters Greek Drama, Ancient Theatre and Modern Performances

Conor Hanratty is a theatre director from Dub-lin, Ireland. After gaining a BA at Trinity College in Dublin and an MA at Royal Holloway in London, he spent two years at Waseda University in Tokyo, during which time he interned with the Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa. He then spent two years working in Ireland with various theatre companies, before presenting an acclaimed production of Camus‘ Caligula at the Fringe Festival in 2007 and the Dublin International Theatre Festival in 2008. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is completing an MFA in Theatre Directing at UCLA.

Eleftheria Ioannidou is Humboldt Research Fellow at the Department of Theatre Studies of the Free University of Berlin. She holds a degree in Theatre Studies from the University of Athens (2002) and an MA in Theatre Research from Royal Holloway, University of London (2003). D.Phil. in Classics, Oxford University (2007). Her thesis maps out the dialogue between late twentieth-century rewritings of the Greek tragic texts and the theoretical investigations of post-structuralism. She has taught classical reception theory and modern Greek theatre at the departments of Classics and Modern Greek at Oxford and theatre history in secondary education.