Dora Tsogia

Dora Tsogia (b. Thessaloniki, Greece) lives in Athens and works as a clinical psychologist-psychotherapist. She studied at the Faculty of Philosophy, Pedagogics and Psychology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and pursued her studies on clinical psychology (MSc, PhD) in UK, while also attending classes on dramaturgy and scriptwriting in Greece and UK.

She has written the award-winning works “Eleftheria Square” (2011, 3rd Award of the Club for Unesco Art- Literature and Science of Greece), “Normal Parents-Modigliani” (2013, Municipal Regional Theater of Northern Aegean praise; 2017 Scriptwriters Guild of Greece praise), and “20 Urban One-Acts” (2018, Eurodram praise). “The Wall,” a work on personality disorders, was staged at Cartel Art Space, in 2014, directed by Sotiris Semertzian. Her one-act, “Purchases of Gold,” was staged at the theater Epi Kolono, as part of the collective project “Under Crisis” (2013), and “Juliet’s Statue” was featured at the Greek Art Theater Karolos Koun’s retrospective on Shakespeare (2017, “A Celebration on Shakespeare”). “20 Urban One-Acts” (published by Agra, 2016) has been staged in 2017 at Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, directed by Kyriaki Spanou and entitled “Station to Station,” and in 2018 at the National Theater of Northern Greece, as part of the lecture-performances project “Voices of the Town,” showcasing Greek contemporary dramas, curated by Kiki Strataki; since January 2019, it was staged at Epi Kolono theater, entitled “My poor, empty Eden,” directed by Maria Aeginitou.