Eliza Alexandropoulou
Lighting Designer
60 designers
57 projects
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, a graduate from the Drama Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with a degree in Set & Costume Design. For her stage design work, she was awarded the 1st Unesco Prize for the Promotion of the Arts at the 2007 Prague Quadriennal Exhibition. She works in Athens and abroad as a stage lighting designer, counting several personal lighting designs for theatre plays and dance performances. She has collaborated with stage directors, such as N. Karathanos, T. Moschopoulos, K. Keiss, E. Laskaridis, C. Papadopoulos, I. Karayan, A. Chioti, M. Kavallieratos, M. Panourgia, E. Gousi, C. Fragkoulis, C. Passalis, A. Papoulia, Z. Chatziantoniou, Plefsis Company, C. Chatzivasileiou, A. Azas & P. Tsinikoris. She was awarded for her innovative lighting design in Relic (Barbican Centre) at the Theatre and Technology Awards (Theatre Fullstop) London 2017 and won the gold prize for her lighting design in Elenit performance at the Greek Lighting Awards, Athens 2021. She has explored the creative fields of light installation and public light art, as a founding and active member of the creative group Beforelight.
Τhe performance was for me a field to experiment both with various scenographic materials and their textures, as well as with the multiple properties of light on stage, theatrical or not. In a universe inhabited by a cosmic being and a shadowy figure, lighting is called upon to create as their companion -or as another performer- pulsating images and spasmodic movements, enhancing the unexpected that one can encounter in the grotesque show of Euripides Laskaridis. Lighting -after several months of experimentation- was integrated into the dramaturgy and the use of unconventional light sources as well as the embrace of darkness contributed to a cosmogony – a special personal pleasure during the creative process of lighting design. Light is a magical expressive tool that can by nature tell stories. The performance tells a story of the past and the future in the present. And this, in a way, concerns everyone.
Direction – Choreography – Set Design: Euripides Laskaridis
Costume Design: Angelos Mentis
Original Music & Sound design: Giorgos Poulios
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Dramaturgy Consultant: Alexandros Mistriotis
Photos: Elina Giounanli, Julian Mommert
Τhe performance was for me a field to experiment both with various scenographic materials and their textures, as well as with the multiple properties of light on stage, theatrical or not. In a universe inhabited by a cosmic being and a shadowy figure, lighting is called upon to create as their companion -or as another performer- pulsating images and spasmodic movements, enhancing the unexpected that one can encounter in the grotesque show of Euripides Laskaridis. Lighting -after several months of experimentation- was integrated into the dramaturgy and the use of unconventional light sources as well as the embrace of darkness contributed to a cosmogony – a special personal pleasure during the creative process of lighting design. Light is a magical expressive tool that can by nature tell stories. The performance tells a story of the past and the future in the present. And this, in a way, concerns everyone.
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, a graduate from the Drama Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with a degree in Set & Costume Design. For her stage design work, she was awarded the 1st Unesco Prize for the Promotion of the Arts at the 2007 Prague Quadriennal Exhibition. She works in Athens and abroad as a stage lighting designer, counting several personal lighting designs for theatre plays and dance performances. She has collaborated with stage directors, such as N. Karathanos, T. Moschopoulos, K. Keiss, E. Laskaridis, C. Papadopoulos, I. Karayan, A. Chioti, M. Kavallieratos, M. Panourgia, E. Gousi, C. Fragkoulis, C. Passalis, A. Papoulia, Z. Chatziantoniou, Plefsis Company, C. Chatzivasileiou, A. Azas & P. Tsinikoris. She was awarded for her innovative lighting design in Relic (Barbican Centre) at the Theatre and Technology Awards (Theatre Fullstop) London 2017 and won the gold prize for her lighting design in Elenit performance at the Greek Lighting Awards, Athens 2021. She has explored the creative fields of light installation and public light art, as a founding and active member of the creative group Beforelight.
Direction – Choreography – Set Design: Euripides Laskaridis
Costume Design: Angelos Mentis
Original Music & Sound design: Giorgos Poulios
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Dramaturgy Consultant: Alexandros Mistriotis
Photos: Elina Giounanli, Julian Mommert
