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Actor and theatre educator. Born in Athens, married and mother of one son. She studied Theatre at Kostas Kazakos School of Acting (1995–1999), Theatre and Film Acting at a public vocational institute, attended Level A and B cycles in Theatre Education and Drama in Education at Xenia Kalogeropoulou’s Porta Theatre Workshop, and has taken part in numerous seminars on Applied Theatre and Theatre in Education. Since 1999, her professional work has focused on education and the strengthening of social skills through theatre. It includes facilitation, teaching and directing theatre groups in educational settings, social organisations, local authorities and cultural associations. She designs and delivers training workshops for professionals, mainly in the humanities, who use theatre games as facilitation tools. Since 2013 she has worked first with EPANODOS and later with APICCO – Community Based Art, of which she is a founding member, facilitating theatre workshops in correctional facilities and groups of formerly incarcerated people, supporting artistic expression and social reintegration through creative practice. She is also a member of the Equality Committee of the Municipality of Maroussi.

Born and raised in Athens, she is a philologist with studies in Communication, Human Rights and Special Education. For years she taught Greek as a foreign language to formerly incarcerated people and to people held at Korydallos Prison. She is involved in theatre as an amateur and participates in two mixed theatre groups. She is a founding member of APICCO and supports the organisation’s communication activities.

From an early age she developed a strong instinct for questioning what was expected of her and for seeking change. A life marked by extensive travel, difficult periods and rich personal experiences shaped a clear view of politics, society and the value of human connection. Around the age of fifty, while facing health and personal challenges, she met a group of people who brought together theatre and music with freedom, dignity, generosity and love. That encounter became a decisive source of strength.

She became part of the group that would grow into APICCO, sharing the conviction that this coming together had to be organised and turned into work for others — especially people who are isolated, excluded or treated as though they do not belong among us. Through APICCO and primarily through art, she hopes to contribute to a society that looks differently at marginalised groups, supports the reintegration of incarcerated people, the inclusion of refugees and Roma communities, and the acceptance of difference without the taboos of the past.

Born in Paris in 1958, she completed secondary education and worked for two years as a nursing assistant at the Pitié and Salpêtrière hospitals. In 1979 she moved to Greece. She was later incarcerated for drug possession and, during detention, attended the KETHEA EN DRASEI addiction-treatment programme. After release she continued treatment in the open programme 18 ANO, which she completed. While in prison she attended computer and painting courses; after release she studied jewellery making and tango through EPANODOS workshops.

As a member of the EPANODOS Theatre Group she participated in the productions ‘Transactions’ (2013), ‘Metamorphoses’ (2014), ‘Chaska’ (2015) and ‘First Attempt: Tragedy’ (2015), presented in cultural and educational contexts concerned with prison, reintegration and art.

She has volunteered as a nurse at Korydallos Prison Hospital, works with the street magazine Shedia, loves painting and is a founding member of the APICCO Theatre Group.

She grew up in Tripoli until the age of eighteen and then moved to Athens. A graduate of the Athens Law School, she holds postgraduate degrees in Criminal Law and Addictions and in Economic Criminal Law, and works as a practising lawyer. During her undergraduate studies she volunteered with the Juvenile Probation Service at the Athens Juvenile Court. During postgraduate study, following field observation and voluntary practice at KETHEA EN DRASEI, she carried out qualitative research with therapists and judges on the practical application of Greek law regarding the special treatment of drug-dependent offenders; the study has been published in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki digital library. Her second research project concerns organised crime and evidentiary restrictions in criminal proceedings.

For the past decade she has volunteered with organisations promoting the rights of defendants, incarcerated people, people with substance-use disorders, formerly incarcerated people and vulnerable groups, both through art and through legal tools. As a member of APICCO Community, she envisions a society that makes room for every person, respects them and allows them to find and choose their place within it.

Born in Athens, she lives and works in Thessaloniki and always leaves room for what comes next. She studied Law, Creative Writing, Political Communication and Mediation and continues to pursue new learning. She coordinates creative-writing workshops and has served as Scientific Coordinator of educational activities in Second Chance Schools, participating actively in the social reintegration of formerly incarcerated people and other vulnerable groups as a member of APICCO Community. She also organises and implements artistic projects.

She is a member of TRI.ENA Cultural Organisation and edits literary publications. She has participated and received distinctions in literary competitions; her texts have appeared in short-story collections and online literary journals, and she has published two poetry collections. More recently she has also become active in environmental education and awareness through the organisation mamagea.

Born in Lithuania in 1989, he completed secondary school in 2007 and worked in hospitality and construction. At the end of 2009, during the economic crisis in his country, he came to Greece and was arrested for drug transport and possession. He remained in detention until the end of 2013. During his years in prison he learned Greek and sat the national university entrance examinations, gaining admission to the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Technical University of Athens. At the same time he joined the prison music group and later its theatre group.

After his release at the end of 2013 he began his studies at the National Technical University of Athens and continued working with theatre and music through EPANODOS workshops and other amateur groups. He is a founding member of the APICCO Theatre Group. In early 2019 he began working with programming and since October of that year has worked as a Web Developer at Neurosoft.