Eleni Papaleonardos

Eleni Papaleonardos is a teacher, actor, director, theatre creator, and proud member of Available Light Theatre.  Eleni has created new work with AVLT, the SITI Company, and the Tectonic Theatre Project and directed new plays with AVLT and EAT Theatre. Her directing credits include:  [PORTO] by Kate Benson, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch, The Grown-Up by Jordan Harrison, bobrauschenbergamerica by Charles Mee, 33 Variations by Moises Kaufman, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by Daniel E. Kramer, Jenny Schwartz’s God’s Ear, and A Light in the Night by Chris Dickman.  Favorite acting experiences include:  “Matilde” in The Clean House at CATCO; “Samantha Blossom” in Sheila Callaghan’s Dead City with AVLT; the title role in Schiller’s Mary Stuart, a coproduction of Actors’ Theatre of Columbus and the Ohio State University; and originating the solo role in Erik Ehn’s Sealskin, his contribution to Trepidation Nation, at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors' Theatre of Louisville.  She recently created and performed her one-woman show about dyslexia Stop Sign [language] at AVLT.  Eleni was a member of the first M.F.A. company in Wendell Beavers’ new program in Contemporary Performance at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Her students range in age from elementary to the graduate level.  She teaches at Denison University.  A native of Columbus, Ohio and Aegina, Greece, she is based in Granville, Ohio, where she lives with her husband and son.
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