Agrupación Señor Serrano
 
Founded by Àlex Serrano in Barcelona in 2006, Agrupación Señor Serrano is a theatre company that creates original productions based on stories drawn from contemporary times. The company uses the richness of innovative and vintage tools to extend the boundaries of its theater. Based on creative collaborations, Señor Serrano’s productions blend stage performance, text, video, sound, and scale models to stage stories about discordant aspects of today’s human experience. The company productions premiere and tour mostly internationally.
 
Agrupación Señor Serrano gestates and premieres original intermedia productions using the company’s three-stage creative model: Devising of Contents, Dispositive Conception, and Editing and Rehearsal. Creators involved in each work share their primary creative skill sets with one another over the course of the process. This exchanging of abilities empowers each member of the group and consequently the company’s project.
 
The company has received support and recognition from several institutions like GREC Festival de Barcelona, Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo, Consell Nacional de la Cultura i de les Arts, Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat, Centre d’Arts Escèniques de Terrassa, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication or Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts et Sciences – Meylan among others. Its creative processes include international residency centers like La Chartreuse – Centre National des Écritures du Spectacle, La Fabrique de Théâtre or Monty Kultuurfaktorij.
 
At present, Agrupación Señor Serrano is composed by Àlex Serrano (artistic director), Pau Palacios (content manager) and Barbara Bloin (production manager). Besides them, for each production the company has counted on the essential collaboration of a cross-disciplinary and variable creative team. Over the years, many creators have joined the company’s projects, leaving a durable mark: Diego Anido, Ferran Dordal, Jordi Soler, Alberto Barberá, Roger Costa Vendrell, Nuria Manzano, Alexandra Laudo, Jofre Carabén, Martí Sánchez-Fibla, Claudia Solano Watson, Gabriel Parés, Maria de la Cámara, Isabel Franco, Ester Forment, Susana Gómez or Josep Maria Marimon among many others.
 
The company has been awarded with the Silver Lion 2015 from the Venice Biennale.

Panayiota Konstantinakou
 
Panayiota Konstantinakou holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki as a bursar of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation. She also holds a BA in Theatre Studies (School of Drama, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), a Diploma in Drama from the University of Kent at Canterbury and an MPhil (Research) from the University of Glasgow as a Bakala Foundation bursar. Additionally, she holds an MA in «Information and Communication Technologies in Education» (Intra-University Postgraduate Course, partnership of the Faculty of Early Childhood Education and the Faculty of Communication and Mass Media Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly and the Department of Electronics Engineering, University of West Attica).
 
She works as a free-lance Dramaturg for state and municipal theatres, festivals and private companies in Greece. She specializes on classical plays, literary adaptations, youth theatre, documentary theatre, devised theatre and site-specific performance.
 
She has worked extensively as a theatre educator in public schools and has conducted workshops on theatre teaching topics. She has produced theatre-based education packs for Grasshopper Youth and Papalangi Theatre Company.
 
As a theatre scholar she has presented papers in meetings and conferences in Greece and abroad (Prague Quadrennial 2007 & 2011 & 2015 – IFTR Munich, 2010) and has articles published in journals and conference proceedings. Her research interests include: the theory and practice of dramaturgy; the history and theory of scenography and theatre architecture; the aesthetics and ideology of space; theatre and the moving image. Publications in languages other than Greek:  
“Early 20th century Greek tableaux vivants: staging and the nation”, Filmicon 4 (2017), p. 195-226 (http://filmiconjournal.com/journal/article/page/59/2017/4/10); “From ‘made in Greece’ to ‘made in China’: a 21st century touring revival of Golfο, a 19th century Greek melodrama”, Filmicon 1 (2013), p. 104-142 (http://filmiconjournal.com/journal/article/page/7/2013/1/6)
 
She has taught at the School of Drama, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2016-2018) and the Department of Theatre Studies, University of Patras (2017-2019).