Assistant Professor of Theatre in Education
Myrto Pigkou-Repousi studied Theatre (BA), Drama and Theatre Education (MA) and acquired her PhD on “Ensemble Theatre and Citizenship Education” from the University of Warwick (2012). She has also studied Acting in the School of the Contemporary Theatre of Athens (2002) and at the School of Philippe Gaulier in Paris (2003).
Her graduate courses in the School of Drama (AUTH) specialize in applied drama in formal and non-formal education and are equally based on the theatre education methodologies, on practices of contemporary performance and on contemporary theatre genres.
Her research focuses on the connections between performance and contemporary pedagogy, on theatre as form of social intervention, on theatre as a medium of social research and public representation, and on theatre as a form of social and democratic development.
From 2014 to 2018 collaborated as Researcher with Professor Kathleen Gallagher’s international, multi-sited and collaborative research project (SSHRC 2014-18) Youth, Theatre, Radical Hope and the Ethical Imaginary: an intercultural investigation of drama pedagogy, performance and civic engagement (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education). She is delighted to have renewed her collaboration with Professor Gallgher for the new project Global Youth (Digital) Citizen-Artists and their Publics: Performing for Socio-Ecological Justice (2019-2024).
Her publications include:
- Myrto Pigkou-Repousi, «The Politics of Care in Indifferent Times: Youth Narratives, Caring Practices, and Transformed Discourses in Greek Education», in: Kathleen Gallagher, Dirk Rodricks και Kelsey Jacobson (eds), A Global Youth Citizenry: Theorizing Community-Engaged Research Methodology, Springer, 2019.
- Myrto Pigkou-Repousi «Two Drama Models for Youth Civic Engagement» στο Χριστίνα Ζώνιου (ed.), Youth DOCs. Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre in Recording Critical Glances on Youth Culture within Contemporary Reality. A Handbook for Practitioners and Teachers. 2016, p. 95-100. https://www.youthdocs.eu/Portals/49/Handbook/YouthDocs_WEB.pdf
Email: myrtorepousi@thea.auth.gr
Courses:
– Teaching Theatre: Theatre in School
– Teaching Theatre: Drama
– Special Issues of Applied Drama (theory and practice)
