Academic field.

She has been co-founder, trainer, and Scientific Committee member of the Epidaurus Lyceum – International Summer School of Ancient Drama (Athens & Epidaurus Festival and University of the Peloponnese, 2016–2019) and has contributed to numerous research, educational and editorial projects, including serving as Scientific Committee member of the “Performing Space” research project; member of the Editing and Scientific Committees of the Education & Theatre Journal (2014–2024);  as Scientific Advisor and trainer for the project It Could Be Me – It Could Be You (Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network and UNHCR Greece, 2015–2025), as Principal Researcher and Trainer of the project Addressing Roma School Segregation through Performing Arts (University of the Peloponnese & Council of Europe, 2023) and as principal researcher, researcher, and/or trainer in several other transnational research and educational projects, including Thymele (2024-2027), EduSeismArtTec – Educational Seismology for School and Society (2020–2023), YouthDΟCs. Recording critical glances on personal identity, youth culture and contemporary reality (2014-2016), Acting for Austerity (2012–2013), Intercultural Education, Interpersonal Relationships, and Theatre (2012), Camille Claudel III: Ästhetische Bildung in europäischen Dimensionen (2009), and mMPACT –Methodology for Student-Centered Teaching with an Emphasis on the Performing Arts (2007–2010).

She has participated in numerous national and international conferences, serving among others as President of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference Theatre/Drama & Inclusive Education, Athens, 21–23 March 2025 of the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr), and as member of the Scientific and president of the Organising Committees of the international conferences Performing Space of the Department of Theatre Studies UoP (Nafplio 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), as Vice President of the Organising Committee at the 6th Panhellenic Conference on Theatre Studies, Theatre and Otherness: Theory, Dramaturgy and Theatrical Practice (Nafplio, May 17–20, 2017), and as invited keynote speaker at the 33rd International Congress on Creative Drama in Education, Ankara, 13–16 November 2025. 

She has published 5 books as co-editor and over 50 peer-reviewed papers and has co-curated the proceedings of various conferences.

Artistic field.

Since 1999, Christina Zoniou has worked in the artistic field as a professional theatre practitioner -including dramaturg, assistant director, director, stage manager, acting instructor, and applied theatre facilitator—in theatres, festivals, and organisations across Greece, Italy, India, France, Ireland, Turkey, the UK, Lithuania, Hungary, Spain, Poland, and Germany. She has directed and curated numerous performances, theatre productions, and festivals, and has served as assistant director to Lefteris Voyatzis and Barbara Nativi. 

She collaborated among others with Bajando al Sur-Spain, Jana Sanskriti-India, Sutradhaar Centre for Performing Arts-India, SpinTime Labs-Italy, Athens & Epidaurus Festival-Greece, Municipal Theatre of Piraeus-Greece, Activist Theatre of the Oppressed Group-Greece, Crooked House Theatre Company-Ireland, Laboratorio Nove-Italy, Cantiere SanBernardo-Italy, "Estate a Raddicondoli" Festival- Italy, "Comunicare fa male” Festival-Italy, "Utopia del buon gusto" Festival-Italy, il Piccolo Teatro di Pontedera-Italy, Intercity Festival-Italy, Teatro Studio di Scandicci-Italy, Τeatro della Limonaia-Italy, Teatro di Sant' Andrea-Italy, Teatro di Giotto di Vicchio-Italy, Teatro Verdi di Pisa-Italy, "Prima Del Teatro" European School for the Art of the Actor-Italy, Blanka Teatro-Italy, Nea Skini/ Lefteris Voyatzis-Greece.

Civil society.

She has served as President and Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Drama/Theatre & Education Network (2014–2019), as a Board Member of the Municipal Library of Nafplio (2019–2024), and as co-founder of Osmosis – Centre for the Arts and Intercultural Education (2005–2015). She is a member of Amnesty International – Greek Section, where she founded and directed an activist theatre group (2010–2012). She is an active member of the Greek Theatre of the Oppressed movement, facilitating groups and performances in Greece and internationally since 1999.

Education. 

Her academic training includes graduate and postgraduate studies in theatre theory, stage practice, and pedagogy at the University of Athens, Department of Theatre Studies (B.A., 1997); the University of Glasgow, Department of Television, Film and Theatre Studies (M.Phil., 1998); and the Laboratorio Nove Acting School – Master “Drama in Scena” (2002). She holds a PhD on Intercultural Education from the University of Thessaly, Department of Preschool Education (Ph.D., 2016) and has attended numerous international theatre training seminars.