Paris (Paraskevas) Katsivelos

Paris (Paraskevas) Katsivelos is an actor and professor of dramatic art. He comes from Thassos. He studied Acting, Directing, Set Design – Costume Design, Monody – Melodramatics, Kinesiology – Choreography, Stage Education and Speech Education. He participated, in Greece and abroad, in seminars, workshops, symposia and conferences of schools, systems, currents and styles of theatrical art, as well as psychology, philosophy and parapsychology.

He previously played in twenty-two theatrical and forty-three television productions. He participated in four motion pictures and in several radio shows of continuity and standalone. He was a permanent announcer and curator of the radio broadcasts of the Ministry of Rural Development for twenty-eight years.

He teaches Acting, Speech Education, Improvisation, Specialized Workshops of Dramatic Art and Education of Quality Communication (Journalism), in Higher Schools of Dramatic Art, Theatrical Workshops and University Institutions in Greece and abroad.

He is a tenured professor at the Austrian University of D.U.K. and the European Communication Institute, where he teaches the ad hoc module he developed for his Postgraduate Programs “Quality Communication Education”.

He is a regular speaker at the Union of Greek Physicists and the Association for UNESCO of Literary Arts and Sciences of Greece. He participates as a speaker in symposia, conferences, festivals, and other events around Spirit and Culture.

Representative Distinctions – Awards:

• From the World Philosophical Forum, of which he is a permanent speaker and a member of its Organizing Committee, he was awarded the “Broad Social Education Commendation” in 2012 and 2013, as well as the title of “Citizen of the World” and “Global Active Thinker”.
• From the Academy of Greek Art Awards, under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and the European Press Journalists Association, with the “PERSONALITIES 2013-2014” Award, for his book of Self-Improvement and Esotericism “With Light as Our Compass” (OnTime Books).
• From the International Cultural Organization “The Café of Ideas”, with the Gold Medal of Alexander the Great.
• He also received an Honorary Distinction from the Association of Greek Egyptians, two Honorary Distinctions from the Association for the UNESCO of Arts, Literature and Sciences of Greece and from the Literary Symposium on its electronic platform, Honorary Award and Honorary Distinction from the Association for UNESCO of Piraeus and Islands, as well as the “GRAMOTA” award from the Association of Bulgarian Poets in Pleven, Bulgaria during the “Three-day Greek Culture and Friendship of the two peoples”.
  

He has been researching and moving in areas of Philosophy and Esotericism since his adolescence.