Stella Christodoulopoulou was born in Athens/Greece. She is a performing and visual arts artist.

During the last years she has lived and worked in several countries and cities, including Berlin, London, Athens, Thessaloniki, the island of Crete etc.

She studied theatre and acting at Veaki Athens School of Dramatic Art and worked professionally as an actress/performer with many well-known directors. She collaborated with the National Theatre of Northern Greece, the Hellenic Epidaurus Festival, the National Theatre of Greece and many independent theatre organizations. In 2014 she co-produced 2 Festivals of Performing Arts against Fascism and Racism in Athens, for which she received an Unesco honorable mention. Alongside, she studied Artistic Photography with P. Rivelli at the Benaki Museum in Athens. A strong turning point was the fellowship she was awarded from the Academy of Arts in Berlin in the section of Performing Arts for 2014/15; and in May 2015 she presented her first theatre direction, with the performance “CIVIL” at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. The performance was engaging with Modern Greek History and it was based on her own concept, research and writings. While living in Berlin she initiated a project of artistic portrait photography that lead to an exhibition at the Academy of Arts in Berlin in 2015. Right after the opening in Berlin, she received the Embassy Postgraduate Scholarships from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London for her studies of MA in Advanced Theatre Practice -Directing. In 2015 she created an audio enabled performance called SEA at the Swiss Cottage Library in London; a performance that was occupied with the ongoing refugee crisis. In 2016 she directed the performance CIVIL² for the Experimental Stage of the National Theatre of Greece. The performance was examining the Greek Civil War era of 1946-49, and was also selected for the opening of the Athens Biennale 2016. In August 2016 she produced and directed the devised ballroom performance LOSING GAMES that opened at the Asylum Chapel venue in London. The performance was dealing with the last 100 years of European History, through a playful game frame, while focusing on people’s behaviors towards winning and losing. In October 2016 she graduated from RCSSD as a Master of Arts in Advanced Theatre Practice-Directing, and in Spring 2017 she decided to relocate to Athens. She is a member of Stage Directors UK, of the International Theatre Institute and an emerging artistic photographer counting 3 exhibitions in Athens and Berlin. In between Theatre and Photography, she is working on her first book to be published in Greece.