About Antonia Charalambous
Antonia Charlambous is an honour roll graduate of the Drama School of the National Theatre of Greece. She has studied at the Department of Theatre Studies at the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, has a diploma in piano and music theory and has knowledge of German, Spanish and sign language.
Charalambous has experience as a radio producer and as an actress, has filmed one short and three feature films as well as taken part in numerous television series in Cyprus and Greece. Since 2012, she has worked as an actress with the Cyprus Theatre Organisation, Satiriko Theatro, ETHAL Theatre, Chora Theatro, OPEN ARTS, Fresh Target Theatre as well as with other independent productions in over forty performances. Charalambous has participated in the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Kypria International Festival, the Nicosia International Festival and the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama. She is a New Creative of the Year award-winner by the 2018 Cyprus Theatre Awards and a Women of the Year 2019 Madame Figaro award-winner in the Actor category.
About Athina Kasiou
Athina Kasiou is the founder of the OPEN ARTS theatre group. Kasiou studied at Emerson College in Boston (BA Theatre Studies), Middlesex University in London (MFA Theatre Directing), the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Moscow, and the ISI Indonesian Art Institute in Bali. She has also participated at the Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Lab 07 in New York, as well as directing workshops by Katie Mitchell and Ian Rickson.
With OPEN ARTS, Kasiou has directed the works, “Buried Child” (2021) and “True West” (2015) by Sam Shepard, “Not Νot Νot Νot Νot Εnough Οxygen” (2019), “A Number” (2017), and “Love and Information” (2016) by Caryl Churchill, “The Fever” by Wallace Shawn (2017), and “The Human Voice” by Jean Cocteau (2017), “Krapp's Last Tape” (2014) and “Not I” (2014) by Samuel Beckett, “The Cherry Orchard” (2012) by Anton Chekhov, and “A Midsummer Night's Dream” (2011) by William Shakespeare.
Kasiou is a founding member of Project S E A S O N Women. With the Cyprus Theatre Organisation, Kasiou directed the production of “Tribes” by Nina Raine. Together with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra and the Cyprus Theatre Organisation, Kasiou has cooperated on the production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” for the Kypria International Festival (2016), as well as with the Cyprus Theatre Organisation as director on the works, “Diaboliad” (2012) by Mikhail Bulgakov and “In Two Minds” (2010) from the group of works by Carl Krull.