Fashion designer, visual artist and drag performer based in Athens. He studied fashion design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and currently runs the eponymous brand DAGLARA, a multifaceted project that integrates various forms of expression, including performance, video, and painting. He worked as a costume designer for the opera ORFEAS2020 (a production of the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera) as well as for the performance Songs of the Greek People – A Drag Oratorio at the Athens Epidaurus Festival. He has participated in international festivals and exhibitions such as Digital Feminism (Dresden), 2nd “<Interrupted = “Cyfem and Queer>” (Berlin), Tending Towards (Tinos-Athens) and Superball 2018 (Amsterdam), where he was awarded the titles “House of Superball” and “Miss Superball 2018”.

Born in Athens in 1974. He is a poet, essayist, translator, and performer. He has been publishing in literary journals and newspapers since 2006. He has translated various poets, from Byron to Muldoon to Denise Riley. In 2013, he was visiting poet at the University of Barcelona, and at King’s College, London. His work has been translated into English, Spanish, German, Swedish, French, Russian, and Bengali. In 2018 he wrote the play Ghosts, inspired by Ibsen, for the Athens Epidaurus Festival, and translated into English the version of Aristophanes’ Birds staged by Nikos Karathanos in New York (St Ann’s Warehouse). In 2020, he presented his work at the Contemporary Greek Poets’ seminar series of Harvard University. In 2023, he participated in the Archive of Desire, a festival on Cavafy’s poetry, as a guest of Columbia University, New York. His latest publications include Tyfland (poetry, 2023) and I Epitropi (The Committee, a novel, 2021), both from Nefeli Publications.

He studied law, communication, and social anthropology in Athens and Cambridge. He works at the P. Sakellaropoulos Institute of Mental Health for Children and Adults and as a mediator. His poetry collection, Propaganda (Gavriilidis Publications, 2015), was awarded the Anagnostis Prize for Debut Collection. With Anastasia Mitropanou they co-wrote the play Lo (Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, 2018). He wrote the libretto for Visions and Wonders of General Makriyannis (Kichli Publications, 2019), an opera composed by Dimitris Maragopoulos (GNO Alternative Stage, 2019). He wrote the script and the libretto (co-author Orfeas Apergis) for The Fall of the House of Commons, a contemporary opera composed by Orestis Papaioannou (HfMT Hamburg, 2022; Athens Epidaurus Festival, 2023). His poems have been translated into four languages. His latest poetry book, The Next Us (Stigmos Publications, 2021) has been shortlisted for the main Anagnostis Poetry Prize as well as for the Chartis Prize for the Best Poetry Book.

Born in Greece in 1993. He studied composition at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (under Christos Samaras) and at the Lübeck University of Music (under Dieter Mack). He is completing his doctoral studies at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre, where he researches vocal expressions that lie between speech and song. His compositions cover a wide range of styles and orchestrations, from solo and chamber music to symphonic and music theatre works. He has been awarded numerous prizes in international composition competitions, including First Prize at the 1st Krzysztof Penderecki Composition Competition and First Prize at the 6th International Antonín Dvořák Composition Competition. His music has been performed in many European countries, the United States and Hong Kong by renowned ensembles. In addition to composition, he is active as a vocal music researcher and lecturer in music theory and musicology at the Berlin Academy of Music.