Io Angeli
Painter / Professor/ University of Western Attica
She studied Painting and Stage Disign at the Athens School of Fine Arts and carried out graduate studies at the Royal College of Art and Central - Saint Martin’s School of Art & Design in London, on a fellowship granted by the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation. Her work focus on investigating the fluidity of space, city, home, room, all vibrate and compose the country which the body inhabits. She has taken part in many group exhibitions both in Greece and abroad. Her works hang in private and public collections. She has a collaboration with the Zoumboulakis Galleries. She is a Professor at the University of West Attica, Department of Interior Architecture, she teaches Fine Art and Stage Design.
Angeliki Avgitidou
Angeliki Avgitidou works in performance and public space (https://vimeo.com/angelikia). Studies in architecture (BArch Hons, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and fine arts (MA, PhD, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design). Included in Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, its Performance Festival, the International Biennial of Performance Deformes, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, and the 15th International Exhibition of Architecture of the Biennale of Venice. Author of Performance Art: Education and Practice (Routledge, 2023 https://bit.ly/3zfsE7s).
Pablo Berzal Cruz
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Theatre Studies/Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, http://pabloberzal.net/
Pablo Berzal Cruz is an architect, and holder of a PhD (Universidad Politénica de Madrid, UPM). He has collaborated in immersive theatre projects and performances, designed and curated numerous exhibitions and participated as an artist in solo and group exhibitions. He teaches in the Master's Degree in Ephemeral Architecture (UPM). He is currently developing postdoctoral research on the performativity of ritual space, within the Margaritas Salas programme (UPM) and teaches in the Department of Architectural Projects of the same university.
Maria Chaniotaki
ΜΑ Theatre Designer/Scenographer, Visual Artist
Head of the Laboratory of Scenography, Athens (LSA)
website: www.mariachaniotaki.gr blog: https://maria-chaniotaki.tumblr.com/ email: maria.m.chaniotaki@gmail.com
Maria Chaniotaki was born in Heraclion Crete. She studied T. Civil Engineering (BA), Music Piano and Theatre Design/Scenography, Master of Arts (MA) at Wimbledon College of Arts -UAL. London, UK. She is working as theatre and costume designer since 1996 and she has exhibited her work as visual artist in various exhibitions. She is the founder and head of the “Laboratory of Scenography, Athens (LSA)”. Her first attempt in directing was performance installation “Thread” and “Thread – the fairy tale”. She has published three books. Her new book “The Poetic Art of Scenography” will be published in Greek and English soon. She was thw Curator and Course Leader of LSA in PQ 2015, with the Greek participation - student section. She was the curator/artistic director of Scenographer’s George Anemogiannis Exhibition in Crete, organized by the Kazantzakis Museum. Member of the: Society of British Theatre Designers (SBTD), International Institute of Theatre (ITT), Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece (EETE) and Greek Theatre Designers Association.
Antonis Daglidis
Professor of Art direction and Costume Design at the School of Film of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki AU.TH. In theatre has collaborated with the Greek National Theatre, National Theatre of Northern Greece, Greek Festival, the Karolos Koun Art Theatre, the Athens Music Hall, the National Opera, and many others on more than one hundred and ten productions.He took part in the National Representation at Prague Quadrennial in 2003.In cinema he received the award for production design for the film “Issimeria” Thessaloniki Film Festival 1991, the National Award 1996 for the film “Wind over the City” and the Greek Film Academy Award 2014 for the film “Mikra Agglia”.
Assi Dimitrolopoulou
She has designed sets & costumes for a variety of theatre productions. Her work includes collaborations with Athens Epidaurus Festival, Festival Off Avignon, Greek National Theatre, Greek Art Theatre Karolos Koun, Centre Dramatique National Orléans, National Theatre of Nothern Greece, Megaron The Athens Concert Hall, Sarajevo Winter Festival, Amore Theatre et.al. She studied architecture in Athens (NTUA) and set design in Paris (postgraduate studies: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Villemin) and her career began as an assistant designer to John Macfarlane (Opéra National de Paris), Jérôme Savary (Théâtre National de Chaillot) and Silvia Hasenclever. Assi is the production & costume designer of many films and has been awarded for her work in theatre, architecture and cinema. Since 2004, she has been lecturing scenography (Special Teaching Staff) at the University of the Peloponnese, School of Fine Arts, Department of Theatre Studies.
Stavros Gyftopoulos
Architect Professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He holds a M.Arch. degree from a combined study at the Bartlett in UCL and the School of Architecture of the University of Sheffield. He is specialized in architectural design and research by design. His architectural interests include methodological and typological approaches to design, implementation of new architecture into historically important places, transformations of contemporary theatre design and its relationship to space and scenography. Since 2000 he has been teaching at the School of Architecture, NTUA, in the field of architectural synthesis. He teaches architectural synthesis of educational, religious, and cultural buildings, also emphasizing on the integration of new architecture in places of architectural and historical importance. He is an expert in morphological analysis of traditional settlements, and morphological analysis of contemporary architecture. He has also been involved in theatre design and the evolution of scenography
Lila Karakosta
Lila Karakosta is an architect and scenographer, Professor of Scenography and Chair of the School of Drama, Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
She holds a PhD in Theatrical Studies from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (title: The Theatre at the Bauhaus. A challenge for the stage – The significance of the theatre workshop).
As an architect she has designed buildings, urban spaces, theatrical and performance spaces. She has organized and designed exhibitions of scenography and visual arts. She has received awards at architectural and artistic competitions.
As a scenographer she has worked with the National Theatre of Northern Greece, the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, the “Experimental Art Stage” of Thessaloniki and most of the Regional Municipal Theatres of Greece, covering a wide range of classical and modern repertory.
Her research focuses on Theatrical Space Design, Theatre Technology and the History of Scenography.
Menelaos Karantzas
BA(Hons) in Theatre Studies from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. MFA(Merit) in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School of the University of Essex, UK. I have directed more than 20 full productions of plays in Athens and in London and I also work as dramaturg and translator. I have taught Directing, Acting and Dramatology in various drama school in Athens and I work as Teaching Assistant for Scenography at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).
George Kondis
Lab Teaching Personnel DPDA
Georgios Kondis studied Sociology and Social Anthropology and holds a PhD in Social Sciences (Catholic University of Louvain). His research on "The World of Work: Aspects, Times, Places" won an award from the General Secretariat for Media and Communication. He has published twelve studies, more than thirty research reports and scientific papers in conferences. He has worked at the University of the Aegean (Department of Social Anthropology), the Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata (Department of Local Government) and the University of the Peloponnese (Department of Theatre Studies), where he currently serves as Lab Teaching Personnel (Department of Performing and Digital Arts).
Maria Konomi
Scenographer - costume designer, visual artist and Assistant Professor in Scenography - Costume Design
at the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Athens (teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels). She specialised in scenography and costume design at the University Arts London (Wimbledon School of Art: BA Theatre Design & Central Saint Martins School of
Art and Design: MA Scenography). She holds a PhD in Greek Scenography. She has over ninety set & costume design credits in all kinds of performing arts and film, presenting her work globally at major theatre organisations, arts and film festivals and independent companies. Her research and publishing interests revolve around contemporary stage practice with emphasis on stage & costume approaches, the scenographic framework in performances of ancient drama, scenography in the expanded field, new spatial forms of theatre and site-specific performance, the interrelations between visual, performing arts and performance, theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to scenography. She has published around thirty articles and a monograph on modern and contemporary scenography. Co-curator for theory for the
Greek participation in Prague Quadrennial 2015 and curator of a series of lectures at Benaki Museum, Αthens, themed Site-Specifics. She is co-curator of the Greek entry in the Exhibition of Countries and
Regions and the Student Exhibition at the Prague Quadrennial 2023.
Dr. Ilia Lakidou
Ilia Lakidou is a theatrologist and a writter. Her PhD Dissertation was on "Theatre Aesthetics of Greek Painters of the '30s", focusing on Spyros Vassiliou's stage designs (2008). She has curated art exhibitions, the highlight of which is the exhibition "Spyros Vassiliou and the Theatre" (Benaki Museum, Piraeus Street, 2011). As a specialist on history of scenography, drama in education and history of the theatre, she taugh at the University of Patras and at the University of Peloponnese (Departments of Theatre Studies). She speaks English and French. She taugh drama in private and public schools for 20 years. She has participated with announcements in conferences in Greece and abroad and her papers have been published in books and periodicals. Since 2017, she is Laboratory and Teaching Staff at the Department of Theatre Studies (NKUA). She teaches courses in the History of Scenography, Theatre Architecture and Costume Design, as well as in Drama and Theatre in Education. Her plays for school performances are published in the series “School Stage” of Kapa Publishing House.
Ioanna Lioutsia
Supplementary Teaching (DTS)
Ioanna Lioutsia is a PhD candidate in the Theatre Studies Department of the University of the Peloponnese. Her thesis is titled Performance Art in the Balkans and its Aesthetic and Political Dimensions (1970-2000). She holds an Integrated Master’s degree in Directing (Theatre Department, AUTh, 2018), a BA in Acting (Contemporary Theatre Drama School, 2017) and a BA in History & Archaeology specializing in the History of Art (AUTh, 2014). She works as performance artist, actress, director, and in Drama in Education. She was awarded the 3rd Prize in Performance Art Category in the Florence Biennale 2021 for her performance Every Day is Woman’s Day.
Dr Loukia Martha
Architect DESA | Set designer DEA| Doctor of the Technical University of Crete
She is a graduate of the School of Architecture ECOLE SPECIALE D' ARCHITECTURE, Paris, holder of a Master's Degree Diploma DEA THEATRE ET ARTS DU SPECTACLE, SORBONNE NOUVELLE, PARIS III and a PhD from the Department of Architecture of the Technical University of Crete. Her professional activity is in Interior Architecture, Scenography, exhibition Design, in Greece and abroad. She has been distinguished in national and International Architecture competitions. From 2005 until today, she works as an associate at the University of West Attica at the Department of Interior Architecture, teaching Interior Architecture and Set Design. With her work, she has participated in Architecture and Scenography exhibitions, in Greece and abroad.
David Negrin
Architect NTUA, Master’s Degree NTUA, Interior Architecture TEI Athens, PhD candidate of the School of Architecture NTUA. He has participated in seminars on Theatre Directing, Lighting and Text Analysis. He works as an Architect since 2005 and his credits as Set Designer include more than 60 theatre productions. He has also worked as lighting and costume designer and as technical manager in theaters operas in Greece and abroad. He works as Teaching Assistant for Scenography at NTUA and he teaches Scenography in Drama Schools.
Dr. Maria Moira
Associate Professor, University of Western Attica
Maria Moira was born in Athens. She graduated from School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens in 1986. She acquired her master’s degree in the field of “Design-Space-Culture” from the NTUA in 2002. She presented her phd in the section III “Architectural language, Communication and design” at the NTUA in 2012 with the title: “The indiscernible city of Herakleion”. Literary representations of the city during periods of reconstruction: the poetics of transition, Herakleion at the threshold of modernism.
She teaches at the department of Interior Architecture, architectural design and configuration of external spaces. In the main focus of her research interest, lies the relationship between literary representations and city. She has participated in many conferences and also she has written articles in scientific magazines and collective books. She lives in Athens She is currently working as an Architect.
Lili Pezanou
Lili Pezanou was born in Athens and studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens.
In collaboration with state theatres and independent ensembles she has designed stage-sets for performances of plays by ancient classical writers, classical repertory texts, poetic texts, modern playwriting, lyric theatre and dance. She was part of the creative team for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of
the Olympic Games, Athens 2004 as stage designer-production designer. Lili has designed theatre spaces, curated and designed art exhibitions in collaboration with museums and private galleries.
Since 2009 is teaching scenography as professor in the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Bill Psarras
Artist, Assistant Professor DPDA
Bill Psarras (1985) is an artist and academic, exploring poetics across different media. His art practice combines site/walking performances, audiovisual installations and video/digital art with city, flaneur and poetry having central position to his works. He is an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Performing and Digital Arts, University of the Peloponnese. For 2020-21 he was awarded as an ARTWORKS Fellow of SNF. His works have been exhibited across international festivals of contemporary art, group exhibitions (Onassis Foundation, MOMus, TCH, FILE, ADAF, WPA Media, Film and Video Poetry Society, ROOMS 2013, OUT(TOPIAS)) and cultural institutions in Europe, US and Asia. He is Dr. of Arts and Computational Technology from Goldsmiths University of London, with further MA studies in digital arts from UAL and BA studies in audiovisual arts from Ionian University. His art practice and research has been supported by the AHRC (UK), State Scholarships (Greece), SNF (GR) among others. His research has been published across international academic journals (LEA MIT Press), conferences (ISEA, Hybrid City, TTT, DCAC) and book chapters. As a musician he has composed/self-released music across rock and ambient genres. He has published two poetry collections (2017, 2023) published by Iolcos Publishing and Pigi Publications. He is the art director of Primarolia organisation. Website: www.billpsarras.com
Athena Stourna
Assistant Professor DPDA, Dr.
Athena’s research focuses on the study of performance space and design, as well as in the relationship between food and drink with theatre and performance. Athena has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and at the Casa de Velázquez. She has been a participant in the Mellon School of Theatre and Performance (Harvard University). As artistic director of the multinational Okypus Theatre Company, Athena has directed and designed productions mounted in theatrical and non-theatrical spaces (museums, archaeological sites, and public spaces) in Greece, the Czech Republic, Wales and Argentina.