EMPLOYMENT HISTORY: TEACHING

• Lecturer of Creative Writing, BA Creative Writing; University of Greenwich, since October 2006
• Lecturer of Creative Writing, Certificate in Creative Writing: BA Humanities and BA English option, Levels 1&2; Oct.2000-Jan.2006, FCE, Birkbeck, University of London
• Lecturer of Creative Writing, Creative Writing Accredited Courses, Level 1, 1996-2000
• Lecturer of Gender Studies, Certificate and Diploma, levels 1,2 & 3, 1993-1999
• Distance Learning Creative Writing Tutor, Open College of the Arts, 2004-2005
• Visiting lecturer for the M.A. in Gender and Society, Birkbeck, Spring 1999 Substituting Professor Isobel Armstrong
• Visiting Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, M.A. Drama, 1993 - 1996

RESIDENCIES/MENTORING:

• One-to-one Mentor, Creative Writing, Collage Arts, June 2006
• One-to-one Mentor, Fiction, Drama, Autobiography: Collage Arts & Centreprise Literature Development Project, 2004-2005
• One-to-one Mentor, Writing for the Stage, Eastside Education Trust, 2004
• Writer in Residence, Holloway Prison, a Collage Arts Project, funded by the Arts Council and Writers in Prison Network, October 2003-October 2004. Responsibilities: initiate, plan and deliver a complex creative writing programme, with tangible results, answering the needs of offenders, staff and the establishment itself, liaising with all three. Project resulted in the booklet 'Journeys: Inside/Out: Writings by Women Doing Time', edited by N.R., published by Collage Arts, 2004
• Writer in Residence for the community theatre project MASKS by PACCA, 2001 - 2002. Responsibilities: initiate, co-ordinate, deliver creative writing workshops with tangible results, for a group of single mothers. Project resulted in a group-written play, professionally produced at Oval House theatre, 2003

PRODUCTIONS/PUBLICATIONS:
PLAYS: Recent:

• GENTLE PERSUASION, short play, SubVerse, Theatre 503, March 2006
• ANGELSTATE: awarded an Arts Council of E. Theatre Writing Bursary
  - Short version performed at Betsey's Interdisciplinary Salon, Jan. 2006
  - Short version read at Open Page/Stellar Network, The Hospital Club, Nov. 2005
  - Short version, London Writers Competition prize winner, 1999
• EDGEWISE: Diaspora Festival, Melbourne, Australia, June 2005 (reading); Gate Theatre, November 2003, workshop production; selected for Eros Theatrou, I.T.I., Athens 2000; Battersea Arts Centre, 1997 (reading). Recommended for a commission, first part of a trilogy, at the Royal Shakespeare Company 2000
• LOVERS: Gielgud Theatre, West End Shorts Season, London New Play Festival 2001; its full-length version was a finalist at the FuturePerfect competition 2000; workshop production Three Mills studio, 2000; extract published in Dummy Magazine, summer 1999
• TRICKY: monologue, Tart Gallery, 2001; published in New Monologues for Women by Women, eds. Tori Haring-Smith & Liz Engelman, Heinemman, 2005
• PAIN(ting)WITH COLOUR: text in collaboration, Warwick Arts Centre, 2001
• NO TROUBLE: developed with a bursary & dramaturgy by Soho Theatre, 2001
• JOSIE'S RESTROOMS: monologue, ICA, Mardi Gras Arts Festival, 2000; published by Robinson, 2000

Earlier plays:

• ITHAKA: Winner of Best Play Award, BITS Theatre Festival, Pilani, India, 1996 produced at the University of Reading, 1995; published in Seven Plays by Women, Aurora Metro, winner of the Raymond Williams Award 1991; Riverside studios (staged reading), 1989;
• DANGEROUS OASIS: monologue, Finborough Theatre, Award Winning Women's Work Season, 1993 (commission)
• DANCE OF GUNS: London Tour, incl. Kings Head theatre, 1992 (commission)
• DREAM HOUSE: Oval House Theatre, 1991 (commission)
• JOHNNY IS DEAD: monologue, Etcetera Theatre, First London One Person Play Festival, 1990
• CRITICAL MOMENTS: a trilogy of shorts, Soho Poly Theatre, 1990

Short Stories:

• OUT WHERE? collection of short stories on 'outsiders', awarded an Arts Council grant 2006
• THE MOMENT YOU SLIPPED, Tell Tales Volume III, 2006
• NINE TRACES IN A CIRCLE: collection of short stories, Thahemon Press, Greece 2006
• FOREIGNER, Chroma Literary Magazine, issue one 2004, UK
• LIGHT AND SHADE, commissioned/performed at NuisBlanche, Tart Gallery, 2001; published in Greece in Print literary magazine, USA, Dec 2003 issue
• BABYBALL: finalist, BBC dot dot dot international short story competition 2000

Editing:

• Editor and Co-Founder, Brand Literary Magazine,July 2007
• Editor, Journeys: Inside/Out, Women Doing Time, (booklet), Collage Arts, 2004
• Co-editor, with Maya Chowdhry, of Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender and Performance, (book), Haworth Press & Harrington Park Press, N.York, 1998
• Arts Editor: Everywoman Magazine, 1995 - 1997
• Editor and co-founder: GLINT theatre journal, 1993 - 1995

Critical Essays/Interviews/articles:

• 'Outsiders, Insiders and their Shadows', essay on my writing, in Feminism and The Arts in Contemporary Britain, ed. Dimple Godiwala, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008 (forthcoming)
• Article on 'Self-censorship in the Theatre', in Highlights quarterly, Greece, May-June 2004
• Essay on 'Self, Writing and Audience', in Lapidus quarterly, Spring 2003
• Essay on 'Butch/Femme Contradictions in Greek Culture', in Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender, Sally Munt (ed.), Cassell 1998; epilogue by Judith Butler
• Interviewed: Feminist Stages, E. Goodman (ed.), Harwood Ac. Publishers 1996
• Essay on 'Representation of Lesbian Sexuality in Theatre', Daring to Dissent, L. Gibbs (ed.), Cassell 1994
• Essay on 'The Search for a Lesbian Theatre Aesthetic', New Theatre Quarterly 34, Cambridge University Press, Autumn 1993
• Essay on 'Feminine Aesthetics', Seven Plays by Women, ibid.
• Numerous articles/reviews published in Diva, Pink Paper, Everywoman, Rouge, Square Peg, City Limits

Critical analysis of my work by other writers:

• Chapter on my recent plays by Dr. Dimple Godiwala-McGowan, Alternatives Within the Mainstream II: Queer Theatre in Postwar Britain, Dr. Dimple Godiwala , Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007 (forthcoming)
• Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing, G. Griffin (ed.), Routledge 2002
• Chapter on my early plays in Putting your Daughters on the Stage, S. Freeman, Cassell 1997
• Sub-chapter on ITHAKA by E.Goodman, Modern Drama, Spring Issue 1996
• Sub-chapter on JOHNNY IS DEAD in Monologue Plays for Female Voices, M.Rose, Tirrenia Stampatori, Italy, 1995

ADDITIONAL DETAILS:

• NATIONALITY: Greek British
• LANGUAGES: Bilingual: English-Greek