Kostas Theonas has had broad training and experience covering communications, the media, arts, and culture.He attended secondary and higher education in Greece, where he studied business management in Athens. After training and experience in stage directing in Toronto, he studied in Montreal and received a diploma in communications from Concordia University.

His employment experience in Canada was mainly in the media, theatre and film. Among other things, he served as: Producer/Co-author of a docu-drama entitled “Points of View” in 1992 sponsored by the Ministry of Culture & Heritage Canada; Artistic Producer of “Hellenic Month in Canada” a cultural festival of film, music, theatre, and photography sponsored by the Hellenic and Canadian Ministries of Culture in several cities in Canada; and Founding Artistic and Executive Director of “Theatriko Ergastiri” in Montreal a non profit organization that produced plays and conducted workshops for aspiring playwrights (1988-1996).

His curation of the Multimedia Exhibition “DE LA GRÈCE À MONTRÉAL”, sponsored by the City of Montreal on the occasion of its 350th anniversary (1986), won the best presentation award amongst 40 cultural communities residing in Montreal. While in Canada he worked as a newscaster and freelance journalist, and later produced and directed Greek language programs on CJMT 14, a multilingual TV channel in Montreal.

Upon his return to Greece, he continued working as an artistic producer and curator. In 1996, he acted as communications director for “Ariadni”, a national conference on Violence & Sexual Exploitation of Women and Minors organised by the European Women’s Network and sponsored by the European Commission and Hellenic Ministry of Public Order.

In 1997 he was Artistic Director for a multicultural arts festival “Many Colors-Many Voices”, and since 2000 has been General and Artistic Director of “Open Horizons”, an NGO focusing on culture and human rights, which led to his becoming Artistic Director of the “World Human Rights Art Festival”. Through the presentation of critical and timely themes each year, the Festival attempts to foster progress towards respect for the different, with the Arts as vehicle. Using all artistic means, including image, sound, movement and words, the Arts are employed to visualise ideas, to change notions into forms, sounds and meaning, and to be a catalytic factor in how we perceive the world.