Kater­ina Papanastasatou

she/her
Greece

Kater­ina Papa­nastasatou is a screen­writer and play­wright, who recently real­ized that in oth­er coun­tries, people actu­ally get paid to do the kind of work she’s been doing for years in Athens- so she is cur­rently based in Ber­lin. She holds degrees in Polit­ic­al Sci­ence and Act­ing. As a screen­writer, she has developed over 80 epis­odes for Greek TV (both daily and prime-time), and has worked as a story edit­or on sev­er­al fea­ture films. In theatre, she has adap­ted six plays, writ­ten an ori­gin­al and dir­ec­ted four pro­duc­tions. Her fea­ture film debut as a co-writer is premier­ing this year. Katerina’s work moves between com­edy and tragedy — often in the same breath — because chaos and con­tra­dic­tion are part of her nation­al (and per­son­al) identity.