Maria Hamali

Maria Hamali was born in Cyprus in 1978. She studied Modern and Byzantine Greek Literature at the University of Cyprus (1995-1999) and obtained a Master’s Degree (2002), followed by a PhD (2013), in Theatre Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The title of her PhD thesis is “Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller on the Greek Stage: From the First Acquaintance to the Establishment (1931-1965)”. From 2002 to 2005 she contributed articles to the Cypriot theatrical magazine “Epi Skinis”, on topics relating to the work of major playwrights and directors. She has attended seminars on Greek Literature and Poetry, Theory of Ancient and Modern Theatre, acting and directing. She has worked as a theatrical advisor in theatre productions and has contributed texts to theatre programs. Since 2003 she has been working in secondary education in Cyprus, teaching Modern and Ancient Greek and Theatre History; from 2003 to 2010 she was an active member of the Athens-based European Network of Research and Documentation of Ancient Greek Drama participating in all its academic and other activities. She participated in several international conferences concerning theatre and literature, in Greece and Cyprus. Since 2011 she works in secondary education in Cyprus and since 2018 in the Ministry of Education as an advisor in the field of literature. Since 2016 she she has also been a regular contributor to one of the major newspapers in Cyprus as a theatre critic.