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Zoe Mavroudi, born in Cyprus, is a Greek actress, playwright, screenwriter and director. She writes and plays in English.

Biography
Zoe Mavroudi graduated from the Conservatory of Athens and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.

Her first play Beauty is Prison-Time is a solo that she plays in London. She is noticed by the critic and receives several appointments. She continued her career in the United States with The Stenographer.

In 2013, she produced a Ruins documentary that traces Greece's health policy in 2012. In May 2012, women were arrested, forcibly tested at HIV. Those who are positive are charged. Their identity and HIV status are published and shown on television. These women are presented as strangers to shoot, witches to burn in the public square. Zoe Mavroudi finds these women, interviews lawyer, doctor, journalist. Only one is in prostitution. These women are people in very precarious conditions without shelter, in a state of drug dependence, of Greek origin.

Parts and scenarios
Beauty is Prison-Time
The Stenographer, 2011
Amazona, 2012
Safeword, 2013

Achievements
All the Women I've Loved, 2004
Ruins, chronicle of HIV-positive witch hunt, 53 min, 2013

Prices
New Most Promising Playwright, for The Stenographer, 2011
best female performance, for The Stenographer, 2011
Safeword Best Scenario Award, Berlin Independent Film Festival, 2013
Best Scenario Award for Amazona, International Film Festival Evolution, 2012, Palma De Mallorca

Notes and references

Birth in Cyprus
Modern Greek playwright
Greek theatre actress
Greek director
Greek scriptwriter