Alexia Charalambidou
Cyprus
After graduating from Vladimiros Kafkarides Drama School in Cyprus (2002), she continued her Drama studies at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York. She worked both in New York and Cyprus with several theatre and independent film productions. She was the lead actress in the award-winning short film “ Lullaby of the butterfly” by Tonia Michali and took part in other short and feature films like “Family member”, “Senior Citizen”, “Aishe goes on vacation”, Dead End” and “Blind Passions”.
She always had a passion for writing and after the shootings of a pilot episode for a TV series that she wrote, she decided to go on the writing path more professionally and took scriptwriting classes for two years (2015-2017). Professionally she was asked to write the script for a bi-communal children’s puppet show, a TV comedy movie, and the pilot episode for a comedy series. Currently, she is writing her own comedy/fantasy series that will be ready soon for the market.
Nicolas Kouroumtzis
Denmark
Nicolas Kouroumtzis has a diverse educational background and working experience. With degrees in acting, film making, theatre directing, screenwriting and communication design (MsC in IT and web communication), he combines a lot of different perspectives in order to look at any given piece of work and understand how it may best make meaning to its audience.
He has worked for various film production companies, created commercials, written for TV series as either showrunner or writer and taught at University and schools in Cyprus and Denmark. He works mainly as a writer and film consultant/script doctor, collaborating with production companies and individuals while maintaining his base in Denmark.
Dianne Jones
USA
Dianne Jones is an American writer living and working in Italy. After studying at Actors’ Studio in NY, she joined the English language theatre group The Crypt in Rome. She has worked on numerous international film productions as a dialect and acting coach and taught at the Action Academy in Rome.
After the arrival of her two children, set work was out but telling stories remained a passion. She has written two feature films and one television series presently in development. She is currently working on her third feature together with her Cypriot and Italian coauthors.