Artistic Director
Meet the artistic director of the Greek Theater Festival Berlin with over 35 productions across Europe. Elena works through directing, theater education and cultural facilitation.
Our Team
Petros Zavrakas
Executive Director
As an actor, he has been on stage for more than a decade, bringing his instinct for structure, mentorship, and calm coordination to running the festival.
Stella Zannou
Movement Director
Working with the actors on how they move, from the smallest gesture to full choreographic scenes, shaping physicality and presence on stage.
Ariella Karatolou
Set and Costume Designer
Shaping the look of the festival from the ground up, designing the sets the plays are staged in and the costumes the characters wear.
Natalie Giannopoulos
Set Designer and Visual Artist
Building the worlds the plays live in, working across light, video and objects to shape the space the audience walks into.
Viktor Karamanis
Sound Engineer
Shaping everything the audience hears, making sure the festival sounds the way it should, across three days, two venues and five productions.
Lena Drazinou
Assistant Set Designer
Turning designs into something that stands up, working through drawing, collage and installation to bring the set from page to stage.
Katerina Dimopoulou
Production Lead
Katerina organises performances, design, parallel events and production across the festival program.
Maria Mina
Communication Lead
Leading the festival’s communication, digital presence, press relations, and audience engagement.
Panagiotis Paschalidis
Festival Operation Lead
Driving the festival’s end-to-end operations, from financial planning and logistics legal and on site delivery.
Natassa Karkatzinou
Production manager | Texts & Surtitles
Natassa supports multilingual access through translations and surtitles, creating a more inclusive experience for everyone.
Dante Kotsinas
Programme Manager & Hospitality
Coordinator of the theater group ithAKT, he keeps rehearsals, schedules, and the festival’s moving parts in order.
Miss Stray
Press Attaché
Force the relationships and strengthening the festival’s connections with the wider cultural community.
Vaios Kolofotias
Artistic Communications Manager
Bridges the festival’s, artistic vision and public communication, shaping how its programme and identity are presented to audiences.
Mihalis Markakis
Sponsoring & Operations Manager
Bringing together sponsorship management and on-site operations – from coordinating partners to running ground-floor and front-house execution.
Stella Kalampaliki
Production Assistant
She support the organization of the theatre festival, as well as the events on site. They help ensure smooth operations behind the scenes.
Sofia Kiassou
Brand Manager | Visual Identity
Shapes the festival’s visual identity, creating a dialogue between Greece and Berlin, where cultures meet.
Maria Papadaki
Digital Marketing Consultant
Driving festival’s digital strategy, growing its online audience, and bringing its programme to new communities across digital channels.
Konstantinos Alexis
Digital Development (Web & Apps)
Crafts the festival’s digital home, building the website and tools that bring its programme closer to wider audiences.
Nayia T. Karacosta
Accessibility Manager
Exploring accessibility and inclusivity as an integrated aspect of the creative process through embodied research across Greece, Cyprus and Germany.
Violeta Lupis
Accessibility Team
Writing and voicing the audio description that carries the stage to audiences with visual disabilities.
Argyris Koumtzis
Accessibility Quality Control
Checking that the festival’s spaces, events and content genuinely work for blind audiences, from the point of view of someone who uses them.
Androniki Xanthopoulou
Sign Interpretation
Drawing on seventeen years in the profession, from television and theatre to the Deaflympics. President of the European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters.
Christina Lygatsika
Accessibility Team
Bringing social media images to life through the descriptions that make them readable for people using screen readers.
Niki Lambrianidou
Translation Team
Leading the festival’s translation work, brings the plays from Greek into German so that language is never what keeps someone out.
Ilias Papagiannis
Translation Team
Translates from Greek into German and proofreads the texts of all five plays to ensure they are accurate and ready for the stage.
Irini Zorzos
Translation Team
With ten years’ experience translating plays for ithAKT, she brings this expertise to the German version of every production at the festival.
Vouli Toliarou
Sponsoring & Operations Team
Alexandra Koziaki
Sponsoring & Operations Team
Christoph Heusmann
Sponsoring & Operations Team
Natassa Karava
Sponsoring & Operations Team
Angela Rizou
Sponsoring & Operations Team
