Xenia Kalogeropoulou  was born in Athens and studied in London at the R.A.D.A.

Returning to Greece, in 1959, she  soon became a well known actress, having played  in  a great number of plays and  films. She founded her own theatre company in  1965.

She has played leading parts in  plays by  Shakespeare, Tchekhov, Brecht, Goldoni, etc as well as  by contemporary authors.

In 1972 she founded a second company, the  MIKRI PORTA (The Little Door) which performs for young audiences  and is generally considered in Greece as the leading company in this field.

Her first play Ulyssindbad (Odyssevach) was a huge success and is now considered  a classic. It has been already produced 30 times by professional companies, in Greece and abroad, and innumerable times by amateur companies and schools.

Then she wrote two more plays which met with equal success. Eliza (based on an Elizabethan play by Thomas Heywood and  Sklavi (The Son of the Slave) (based on a folktale from the island of Simi) which  received the Greek Theatre Critic’s Prize  as best play - in all categories- for the 2000- 2001 season.

In collaboration with the director Thomas Moschopoulos she wrote Beauty and the Beast    The Noah Family , The  King Stag ,  Sleeping Beauty is awake, Paramithissimo and, The Lucky Soldier.

She also wrote the play Come come, a play without words for toddlers and babies.

X.K  has been awarded the prize of the Academy of Athens for her work as a writer.

She is living in Athens  working in her own theatre “Porta” (“The Door”) where she is producing plays for adults, as well as running the MIKRI PORTA.

PLAYS

The King Stag, 2003

Sklavi (The Son of The Slave), 2000

The Noah Family, 1996

Beauty and the Beast, 1994

Bess (Eliza), 1989

Ulyssinbad (Odyssevach), 1981