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Polychronis Koutsakis
was born in 1974, in Chania, Crete, Greece. He is currently an Assistant
Professor at McMaster University, Canada, and lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
For his full-length play “The rotation system” he was awarded the first State Prize for best Greek play in 2007 and for his play “When he was happy” he was awarded the second State Prize for best Greek play in 2005 by the Greek Ministry of Culture. He is the author of 4 novels and 1 collection of poems published in Greece, and four plays published by One Act Play Depot. His one-act play “Bogey” (published by OAPD) was presented in 2003 in the UK by the Rowntree Players theatre group. Three of these performances took place in theatre festivals (one of them the All England Drama Festival) and Martyn Hunter, the actor playing the part of “Bogey” won the best actor award in all of them (in the All England Drama Festival he shared the award with actor Graham Smith, playing the other part in the play). His one-act play “Naughty Cats” (published by OAPD in the three-play collection “Ah, Here Comes Godot Now”) was presented in August 2007 in the Strawberry One-Act Festival in New York. For his full-length play “Without you”, Polychronis was named October’s 2005 “ONE TO WATCH” writer, by the Stage Right Theatre Company, based in Liverpool, UK. Stage Right Theatre Company also presented Polychronis’ monologue “The bet” and two of his poems in a dramatized form, in the “Theatre in the Rough” festival in Southport, Merseyside, England, in February 2006. He is also the author of the play “Kritiis”, which was performed in Chania, Greece in 2001 as a co-production of the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Crete and the Municipality of Chania. |