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Elena Penga (Greek: Έλενα Πέγκα; born c. 1966) is a Greek playwright, poet, fiction writer, and stage director.[1]
Penga attended college and graduate school in the United States and staged her first plays in New York’s off-off Broadway scene before returning to Greece in the 1990s. Her plays have been produced at the National Theatre of Greece, National Theatre of Northern Greece, the Athens Festival and Delphi among many other theaters. Her work has been widely translated and performed in the US, Europe and the middle east. Her book Tight Belts and Other Skin (Agra, 2012) received the Ourani Prize of The Greek Academy of Letters and has been translated into Swedish and English.[2] She is a co-author of the screenplay for the 2001 film adaptation of The Only Journey of His Life, about the Greek short-story writer Giorgios Vizyenos, which won the best film award in the Greek State Film Awards.[3][4]
- ^ Anne Fliotsos; Wendy Vierow (15 October 2013). International Women Stage Directors. University of Illinois Press. pp. 220–. ISBN 978-0-252-09585-6. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- ^ "Penga Elena", The Greek Play Project, 2014, accessed June 12, 2020
- ^ "The Only Journey of His Life". homepages.gold.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ^ "award 2001". Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 16 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2014.