Our Team
“it could be me – it could be you”
...is an awareness raising project, targeting the educational community at large, on refugees
and human rights using
experiential learning, theatre
and educational drama techniques.
Nikos Govas
Project Coordinator
Nikos Govas (Athens, Greece) is an experienced theatre/drama pedagogue. He founded and chaired the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network TENet-Gr (1998-2008). He is editor of the “Education & Theatre” Journal (Athens, Greece) and member of the Editorial Board of the Research in Drama Education (2012-2017). He was awarded the “Hellenic Foundation Award London 1997” and the “Grozdanin Kikot 2002” award for his contribution to development of drama in education. He has worked in secondary education schools since 1982 and has served as “Cultural Programs Coordinator” for Local Secondary Education Authority (1998-2014) developing teachers’ networks, training courses and several art projects. He has written and edited several books and articles on theatre/drama and education in Greece. He works as drama/theatre tutor in teachers’ in-service training courses, in Universities, Municipal Theatres, Associations etc. Currently he is involved in drama projects with UNHCR Greece.
Nassia Choleva
Project Consultant
Nassia Choleva is a Drama/Theatre graduate and has an MA in Applied Drama. She works with a variety of groups with different age, learning, physical and other abilities, in formal and non formal education. She also trains educators on the use of drama in teaching. She has written educational materials (individual or collective editions), resulting from Drama Education projects, to which she participated -planning and/or implementating- for the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet_Gr), Actionaid Hellas and UNHCR Greece. She has also participated in the board of experts of Institute of Educational Policy, for the Curricula of Arts and Culture of New School (2011). She has served TENet-Gr through different posts (Board of Directors, International Affairs, ‘education & theatre’ journal’, Projects Working Group etc). In collaboration with Nikos Govas, she created “it could be me; it could be you”, and she currently serves as a teacher trainer, project advisor and coordinator of training actions.
Yanna Papadopoulou
Project Management
Yanna Papadopoulou is a graduate of the Department of Cultural Technology & Communication (University of the Aegean) and has a postgraduate degree in "Identities & Intercultural Communication in the Mediterranean" (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis). During the past decade she has worked in the coordination of documentary and film festivals in Greece and in France, and in several cultural organisations dealing with intercultural education, music, theatre and documentary production. Since 2010 she is a member of the Theatre of the Oppressed Activist Group. She is part of the “it could be me; it could be you” team since 2016.
Jenny Karaviti
North Greece Management
Afroditi Rizou
North Greece Management
Martina Gomez
Secretary/info
Jenny Karaviti is a theatre pedagogue and a Greek Language and Literature teacher. She holds a BA in History and Archaeology from the University of Athens, and an MA in Theatre - Contemporary Practice from the University of Essex, UK. She is a founding member of the "Hellenic Theatre and Education Network" and has been contributing to its life and development as a member and Chairman of the Board, a founding member of the Northern Greece branch, as well as co-designer, coordinator and trainer at various teacher training programmes. She is a member of the editorial committee of the "Education and Theatre" journal. She is currently representing TENet-Gr in the “Europe in perspective: International Co-operation in Cultural Learning” project , a joint initiative of BKJ, CCE and further partners across Europe. Since 2015 she is involved in the “it could be you – it could be me “project as a coordinator, teacher trainer and youth facilitator.
Afroditi Rizou has studied Pedagogy in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She holds a MA in Educational Studies in the specialty area: "Society, Education and Pedagogy" from the same University. Her thesis researches the relation between Paulo Freire's pedagogy and Augusto Boal's theatre. She was a greek language teacher to immigrants in the Solidarity School "Odysseas" for four years and took part in the school's theater team. Now, she is a teacher in primary school. She has attended and participated in several training seminars and conferences on interculturalism, literature, greek as second language, Pedagogy of Theater. She is a member of TENet-Gr and is involved in the "it could be you - it could be me" project as a facilitator and coordinator.
Martina Gomez is a graduate of the Department of Public Relations and Communication of the Technological Educational Institute of Ionian Islands. She has completed the first year of the 2 year Program of the Public Institute of vocational training, in the Art of Theater and Cinematography and has worked in feature films as an assistant actor. From 2006 to 2013, she worked as a member of a creative and photojournalist group of the local newspaper "IMERISIOS". Also for several years, she worked in positions relating to secretarial support and communication with the public. She has attended dance classes, computer and photo training seminars. Since 2016, she has been working on the secretarial sup ort of the Human Rights Awareness and Refugee Information Program "It could be me, it could be you", which implements The Hellenic Theater/Drama in Education Network, in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Greece.
Christina Krithari
Central Greece Management:
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Sonia Mologousi
South Greece & Aegean Islands Management
Sonia Mologousi is a theatrologist and drama practitioner, graduate of the Department of Theater Studies of the University of Patras and the University of Warwick in the UK, where she completed her postgraduate studies on Drama/Theater in Education. She has volunteered with groups of children and young people in Greece and abroad. She has also attended seminars on various dramatic techniques, Puppet Theater and drama/theater in education. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet- Gr, 2011-2014). As a drama pedagogue, she has been working in municipalities and primary schools since 2008 and has also facilitated workshops for children, teenagers, adults and teachers in collaboration withseveral Environmental Education Centres in Greece, the British Council as well as TENet- Gr and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as part of the project " It could be me;it could be you; A Human Rights and Refugee Awareness Project "," Monologues from the Aegean Sea ".
Giorgos Mpekiaris is a certified primary school teacher, as well as a theatre studies graduate. He facilitates drama workshops for primary school students and youth groups. As shadow theatre techniques are one of his main focus, he has directed “Maypole of shadows and colors…”, a shadow theatre performance. He has also contributed to the creation of “349’ to go…”, a TiE project about bullying, which includes Drama and Forum Theatre techniques. Both projects were produced by theatre-education group PaiTheA (ΠαιΘέΑ), to which he is a founding member.
He has participated in the editing of new curricula and teachers’ guides for the subjects of drama for primary education, and classroom drama and dramatization for Secondary Art Schools. He has been a member of “it could be me – it could be you” project since 2015 as a teacher trainer and regional coordinator. He is currently a member of board of directors in TENet-Gr.
West Greece & Ionian Islands Management
Giorgos Bekiaris
Eleni Kritikou has studied Chemistry and has a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry. Has worked as a teacher of Science in Secondary Education, as Coordinator of Environmental Education Programs in the Directorate of Secondary Education in the Region of East Attica and is currently School Advisor for Science Teachers in the Directorate of Secondary Education in the Region of Athens. Has experience in the conduction of research in the field of Biochemistry and EE and in the organization of seminars and workshops in Science and EE for teachers. Has participated in Arion and Comenius Programs and was Assessment & Evaluation Expert of the YouthDOCS video/drama 2014-2016 Erasmus+/KA2 Project. Since April 2017, she is project evaluator of “It could be me; It could be you” Project.
Project Evaluation Consultant
Eleni Kritikou
Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)
41 Evmolpidon Str. Athens 11854, Greece
2106541600 / info@theatroedu.gr
