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MARIALENA LAPATA
Stage designer - Costume Designer


Born in Athens, she graduated from the Athens Technological Educational Institute, Department of Photography. She also studied Scenography and Costume Design for one year at the Laiko Theatro (People's Theatre) School. Later, she took her Master's Degree on Scenography from the Universitat Mozarteum fϋr Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Salzburg.

She has worked as costume designer for the performance of operas by K. Orf and Ph. Glass and for the Grosses Studio Mozarteum in Salzburg.

She has also presented her constructions in art exhibitions «Transformationen» and «Mammut Glyphix» in Austria. Since November 2002 she is in Athens, working with Dora Lelouda on a special performance about poet G. Ritsos, directed by G. Lapatas in Herod Atticus Theatre.