Elli Papakonstantinou (Greek: Έλλη Παπακωνσταντίνου, born 1973),[1] is a Greek-born stage director, librettist, translator, cultural manager, and activist.

Other collaborations in the field of new writing include the direction of "Destiny" and "A Night of Secrets" by Akis Dimou at the National Theatre of Greece, "The Sound of the Gun" by Loula Anagnostaki, "The Country" by Martin Crimp, radio-play Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices[4] by Sylvia Plath, "The Iron" by Rona Munro and more.

[7] Papakonstantinou revisited the classics with an emphasis on music in productions "A Winter's Tale" by William Shakespeare at the National Theatre of Cyprus and "Woyzeck Quartet", after Alban Berg's Wozzeck which premiered at the Athens & Epidaurus Festival.

[8] Scholar Xenia Georgopoulou commented on an idiosyncratic version of William Shakespeare's "Richard II" that Papakonstantinou presented at Vyrsodepseio that it "focused on the similarities between the play and the political context" with the director herself remarking that"[t]he text is remarkably topical" and "that her production was intended for a popular audience, not for the small social elite, which had long been the targeted audience".

In May 2014, Papakonstantinou participated at a tribute to contemporary Greek theatre that was held at the Panta Théâtre in Caen, France, where she directed Elena Penga's play Femme et Loup (Woman and Wolf).

The show excelled for its artistic quality and social impact and was proudly selected to perform for the European Parliament for Culture in the frame of the Operadagen Festival, Rotterdam, in 2017.

[19] "Każin Barokk", an opera conceived, written and directed by Papakonstantinou and commissioned by Valletta 2018, European Capital of Culture, was held at the Notre Dame Gate in Birgu, Malta, in September 2018.

[25] In 2018, she received for a second time a Fulbright Artist's Award to serve as a visiting scholar for six months (October 2018 - April 2019) at the CCRMA – Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, US.

She is currently developing “EROS”, an international co-production with Nova Opera, supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture and the Ukrainian House Of Europe, which is scheduled to premiere in the spring of 2022 at O.

It is a live-streamed performance developed, designed and executed in seclusion in the many different homes of the artists, who join forces to create one unique audiovisual experience, a cinematic concert in synchronicity.

“Theatre of seclusion” comes with a set of rules and restrictions: Between 2011 and 2017, Papakonstantinou produced and/or curated most platforms and programs of Vyrsodepseio Art Space, Athens (GR) in total more than 100 festivals of music and dance, performances and international collaborations like: Catalan artists meet Greek artists platform, a partnership of Vyrsodepseio and Antic Teatre, Barcelona; Site-Specific Festival I, II and III, three-day festivals with more than 300 participant artists; Month of Greek Theatre in France and Month of French Theatre in Greece, June 2014 (co-curated with D. Kondylaki and G. Kakoudaki); A partnership of Vyrsodepseio with the Institut Français (GR), Panta Théâtre, Maison Antoine Vitez (FR); Performance Art Workshops (co-curated with K. Diapouli) and Dramaturgy Workshops (co-curated with D. Kondylaki and G. Kakoudaki).