Yolika Poulopoulou

Theatre pedagogue, theatre director, performer, group facilitator.

She studied Pedagogy in Thessaloniki and Theatre Pedagogy in Berlin. She was a scholar of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

Since 2015, she has been professionally involved in theatre, performance and pedagogy. She is a founding member of ATTACTUS NPO, an active member of patchwork Social Cooperative Enterprise, and a member of the Hellenic Network for Theatre in Education.

She has directed the theatre performances:

“I Want a Country” (10.2025), “And Then What? We, the Little (Almost) Grown-ups!” (07.2024), “MARIKES#not about famous personas” (05.2024, in collaboration with Katerina Adamara and the NPO Arts at the Mixer), “Me and the World: Ode to Human Relationships” (04.2024), “A Country Two Centuries Later” (04.2024), “Matthias the First” (01.2024), “Romeo and Juliet” (07.2023), “The Jacket… Bleats!” (03.2023), “Robin Hood” (01.2023), “My Place: Stories of Everyday Adolescence” (07.2022), “Poets Converse” (06.2022), “Dream of an Electronic Night” (03.2022), and “The Last (?) Cats” (07.2021), “The Miser” (07.2023), “Distomo: Unbeglichene Schulden” (06.2015, co-creation with S. Kuhn and S. Wöss, Hans Frankenthal Award 2017, Hamburg), and “People Are Strange (?)” (07.2014, Berlin).

She has presented the solo performances “Roles Roll” and “Approve-all”, with the Athens Video Dance Project as their starting point.

Finally, she has collaborated (as director, actor, assistant director, dramaturg, production coordinator or theatre pedagogue), among others, with:
A. Papathanasiou, Ch. Kalaitzopoulos, Fraction Theater Company, Theatrical Laboratory of Messini, Experimental Scene of Kalamata, NPO Arts at the Mixer, N. Dimopoulou, Laughter Guild, A. Kanellopoulou, A. Drillia, E. Souli, G. Kalavrianos, M. Schlösser, Natural Theater of Oklahoma, A. Man, M. Majce, A. Pirici, T. Krone, A. Hingst, Jahrmarkttheater, and the Hellenic Network for Theatre in Education.

Yanna Papadopoulou

She studied at the Department of Cultural Technology & Communication of the University of the Aegean and continued with the postgraduate programme “Identities & Intercultural Communication in the Mediterranean” at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. She has worked in the coordination of documentary and film festivals, as well as in cultural and artistic organisations focusing on intercultural education, music, theatre, and documentary production.

She is a member of the Theatre of the Oppressed Activist Group Media dell’ Arte Creative Team (5.2021 – 1.2022, Arts & Events Venue Coordinator at PLYFA Industrial Park), Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr) (2016-2020, General Manager of “it could be me-it could be you” an awareness raising project on refugees and human rights), International Association of Music Information Centres (7.2014 – 2.2016, Office Coordinator), Small Planet Documentary Production House (1.2014 – 7.2014, Production Assistant (Internship)), Osmosis–Centre for the Arts and Intercultural Education (9.2009 – 3.2013, Project Manager of “ARIADNE”: Art for intercultural adaptation in new environment (EU GrundtvigProgramme – LifeLong Learning – Adult Education) and “ESCAPES”: Theatre Pedagogical Programme for Social Inclusion and DrugPrevention (General Secretary of LifeLong Learning)),Ecofilms -10th Rodοs International Film & Visual Arts Festivaland 2nd Kos International Health Films Festival (1.2010 – 9.2010, Catalogue Coordinator), Mediterranean Center for Audiovisual Communication Marseille, France (3.2008 – 2.2009, Coordinator of the International Award of Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage).

She is a member of the activist group of Theatre of the Oppressed Greece and she has participated in a number of European trainings on intercultural dialogue, conflict management and Theatre of the Oppressed.

She dreams of a world without stray animals and defends their rights.