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Born in Athens in 1991, he travels and organises photographic and environmental projects across Europe, Africa and Asia. He also works as a photographer, focusing on photojournalism and documentary photography.

Eirini Ioannou-Papaneofytou was born in Athens in 1994 and graduated from the Athens Conservatoire Drama School in 2017. Since then she has worked as an actor in theatre productions including ‘The Rose Tattoo’, directed by Lefteris Giovanidis at the Municipal Theatre of Kozani and the Art Theatre Underground; ‘It Is Snowing Outside’, directed by Maria Aiginitou at Epi Kolono; ‘King John’, directed by Apostolis Psarros at Vault Theatre; and ‘Alice in Wonderland’, directed by Anita Kapousizi at 14th Day Theatre, among others. In film she has appeared in the feature ‘Tailor’, directed by Sonia Liza Kenterman, and the short film ‘The Eye’, directed by Stergios Dinopoulos, among other works.

She has also worked as an actor-facilitator with EPANODOS, with the Theatre Group of Formerly Incarcerated People and at Korydallos Prison Hospital in the production ‘K’ by the Theatre Group of HIV-positive Prisoners. She has worked as a theatre educator with the ‘Escapes’ group on substance-use prevention in schools in Attica and at a European Integration Fund summer camp promoting intercultural dialogue in a primary school in Agioi Anargyroi.

A graduate of the Veaki Drama School, she studied classical piano, music theory, classical and contemporary dance. In theatre she has collaborated with directors including Angela Brouskou, Akis Davis, Carmen Rouggeri, Giannis Kalantzopoulos, Thymios Karakatsanis, Stamatis Fasoulis, Peris Michailidis, Giannis Karachisaridis and Giorgos Michalakopoulos. She has performed at major and regional stages including the National Theatre, Epidaurus and the Municipal Regional Theatres of Volos, Crete and Kalamata, and has toured throughout Greece.

From 2000 to 2002 she presented a daily music programme on the First and Fourth Programmes of Greek Radio. She has taken part in television series, music videos, short films and dramatised presentations of poetry and children’s books. She has also adapted, directed and performed monologues based on works by Franca Rame and Dario Fo, Melpo Axioti and Anna Seghers. Her artistic contribution has included work with 18 ANO, KETHEA, OKANA, the Women’s Detention Centre of Thebes and the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica. In November 2019 she began teaching theatre at the 2nd Second Chance School of Korydallos – Giorgos Zouganelis.

Born in Trikala in 1982, he graduated from the Kavala Institute of Technology in Administration and Economics and now lives in Lamia. He has worked as a correctional officer since 2008. In 2018 he entered amateur theatre through APICCO and at the same time began exploring stand-up comedy, advertising, YouTube and other forms of performance. Acting had been a lifelong dream and has also become a way of releasing the stress and pressure of his professional life.

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.