Born in Greece, raised and educated in the United States of America.
Certified member of the European Association of Psychotherapists (EAP) and member of the Board of Directors of the Panhellenic Professional Association of Dramatherapists and Playtherapists.

Graduate of Dramatherapy from “ATHIRMA” Hellenic Institute of Dramatherapy and Playtherapy, and Sociology/Literature from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA and the American College of Greece.

She has worked with individuals with down syndrome and intellectual disabilities (“ESEEPA” Special Vocational Training Center) and also individuals suffering with mental disorders (St. George’s Psychiatric Clinic). Furthermore, she has facilitated workshops abroad, within the framework of an EU program using art as a means of connecting and communicating.

Today, she conducts individual & group sessions, and develops-facilitates theoretical seminars and experiential workshops. She is a trainer and supervisor to Dramatherapy practitioners as well as facilitator of “The Foundation Course in Dramatherapy & Playtherapy” at “HERMA” Institute of Dramatherapy and Playtherapy.

Susana Pendzik (PhD., RDT) is Head of the Drama Therapy Graduate Program at Tel Hai Academic College (Israel), lecturing also at the Theatre Studies Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Swiss Dramatherapy Institute, as well as in other institutions of higher education in Europe and Latin America, and conducting workshops worldwide. Susana is founder and honorary member of the Swiss Dramatherapy Association, accredited supervisor by the Israeli Association of Creative and Expressive Therapies, representative of Israel at the European Federation of Dramatherapy and at the World Alliance for Drama Therapy. Published poetess, theatre director, and researcher, Susana is the author of many articles in the field, a book for using action techniques with abused women, co-editor of Assessment in Drama Therapy (2012), and The Self in Performance: Autobiographical, self-revelatory, and autoethnographic forms of therapeutic theatre (2017), and co-author of a recently published book in Spanish, Dramaterapia: Un enfoque creativo para el trabajo terapéutico (2018).

Robert J. Landy, Ph.D., is a pioneer in the profession of Drama Therapy. He developed the first Master’s degree program in Drama Therapy in the US at New York University, where was also a Professor of Educational Theatre and Applied Psychology. A prolific researcher and author of 12 books and more than 100 scholarly articles, he lectures and trains professionals internationally. As a drama therapist, Professor Landy has more than 40 years of clinical experience treating children, adults and elders with a wide range of psychiatric, cognitive and adjustment challenges. He has worked in many institutional and community settings including hospitals, schools, prisons and refugee camps. Alongside his academic career, Professor Landy has been a  prolific artist. As a composer, he has written songs for albums, musical theatre, and cabaret. As a creative writer, he has published and produced numerous plays, stories and poems. As a theatre artist, he has directed and acted in multiple plays over a distinguished career of 50 years. As a visual artist, he has had many exhibitions of photography, most recently at the Cheng Contemporary Art Gallery in the 798 District in Beijing, China.

Poh Lin Lee is an Australian trained social worker who continually seeks to cross borders to bring together a thoughtful and intricate practice based on her experience and knowledge as a narrative therapist, trauma specialist, writer, teacher, film protagonist and creative consultant. In an attempt to expand opportunities for linking individual experience to wider context and contributing to conversations that hold social action at the heart Poh Lin is dedicated to creatively co-researching with people, families and communities – exploring together alternative practices in response to trauma, injustice and the operations of power and discourse.