Leadership 

The Prometheus Project Foundation is a non-profit organization based in New York City, founded by experienced Emmy award-winning producers with extensive backgrounds in television and film. Meet our visionary leadership team, ready to bring your next projects to life.

Costas Theocharopoulos

Costas Theocharopoulos is an Emmy Award-winning, progressive Production Leader with extensive experience as a Film and Television Director, Senior Producer, and Executive in Charge of Production across national and international broadcasting, cable, web-based, and corporate environments. 

Past Non-Profit experience as National Chairman of the Board GO Telecom, Greek Orthodox Telecommunications, the television ministry of the Greek Orthodox  Archdiocese in America.

Member of the Board of Directors of the Auburndale Youth Soccer Club.

Bob Shewchuk

Bob Shewchuk is a multiple Emmy Award winning Producer-Director-Editor with over 30 years experience in Film, Broadcast Television, Advertising and Corporate Video Production. He was formerly Vice-President and Director of Television Production worldwide for Citi..

Bob has Produced numerous Sports and Music Las Vegas TV Specials for Cable & Syndication and helped develop and launch the ABC Daytime Network game show series “The Moneymaze.” He was Co-Producer of the 1996 World Cycling Championships for USA Network and EBU International; Producer of the “Summer Slam” Sports Charity Special for Prime Network; and Co-Producer of “Vocal Extravaganza in Black,” a music competition between black university students for PBS.

Bob has recently Produced & Line-Produced Feature Films including:“Traffic & Sex” Documentary Feature (2021), “Maharlika Warrior” (2023 Action Figure Web Series), “Townhouse Confidential” (2021 Comedy), “Money Game” (2022 Drama) and “Hate Thyself,” (2023 slasher horror film) due for theatrical release in Fall 2024.

Angie Tsekenis-Xidias

Angie Tsekenis-Xidias is a strategic leader, connector, producer, and branding specialist with expertise in business development and building multi-million-dollar brands.  She has a proven track record in sales and marketing, with over two decades of experience in the luxury and healthcare industries, and she works closely with various non-profits focusing on women's empowerment through global power campaigns and events.  www.linkedin.com/in/angiexidias/

Nicos Alexiou

Nicos Alexiou, born in Volos, Greece in 1959, pursued studies in Economics in Athens before relocating to New York in the mid-1980s for graduate studies in Sociology. Since 1990, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Queens College, CUNY, where he received the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. His academic interests include social and political theory, ethnic studies, and research. Alexiou founded the first Archive-Library-Museum for the Greek Diaspora of New York and is the founding director of Research at the Hellenic American Project (HAP) at Queens College (www.hapsoc.org). He has authored seven poetry books, with many poems featured in Greek and American journals and anthologies. A member of the Greek Authors Association in Greece, Alexiou also serves as President of the Greek American Authors Society in New York.

Beth D. Weinstein, M.A., LMHC

Beth has over 25 years of professional experience in strategic marketing and communications, both nationally and international mostly in the nonprofit/NGO sector. Beth brings her expertise both as a strategic marketing professional and experience as Vice-president and founding member of a Board of Trustees for an international public health organization.

Beth has directed both U.S. based and international teams to build brand identity and support fundraising and earned income goals for large nonprofit organizations. Beth has extensive experience managing large scale grants and representing organizations to funders, board members, community members and the media. Beth is a founding board member of an international public health organization utilizing theater and the arts to influence change in small communities since 2003.

She took her extensive professional experience in international public health and humanitarian assistance and runs a Private Practice in Psychotherapy in Chelsea, New York. Beth received an MA from CUNY Baruch in Mental Health Counseling, an Advanced Certificate in Trauma and Disaster Mental Health from SUNY New Paltz and a BA from Bard College.

Lawrence Scott

Lawrence Scott has thirty-five years of hands-on production and management experience in the broadcast, film and entertainment industry, with a strong focus on creative development and production supervision. During his career, Scott has helped launch more than a dozen television programs and has supervised well over fifty marketing campaigns for a variety of entertainment properties.

As a producer, Lawrence has thirty-nine writing, over a one hundred, producer and thirty-three Directors credits. His many skills include creating and producing television programming, digital and Internet campaigns for entertainment properties. Scott's credits include national and international television, PBS programs and live theatre.

Most recently, he supervised all the world-wide media for the Martha Graham Dance Company, the PBS series “Moment of Luxury”, the PBS special “From Mao to the Met”, the Lincoln Center performance of the “Beauty of China”, Hood Pranks the Movie, a Balm Lounge YouTube series, the music film “Lift” for Grand Jury Music and the premiere performance of Danny Seraphine’s (Founder of the band Chicago) new rock band. Scott also supervised the post-production for series Hip-Hop Holdem’ for IMG and Directed “The Civil Right Summit with Mohammad Ali, Jim Brown and Bill Russell".

Maureen McManus

As Principal Marketing Analyst, Maureen worked on behalf of the Chief Security Office at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey managing grant-funded public awareness campaign strategy in the Marketing Department. Maureen McManus had been with the Port Authority for 10 years.

Among noted accomplishments are that she raised $50 million for a public health intervention for women in developing countries on behalf of Johns Hopkins; raised $4 million for Baltimore’s first information/computer technology public/private partnership (one of five in the country affiliated with NASA) on behalf of MEDCO; and pioneered “Brownfields” initiatives in Southwest Brooklyn testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with the Abandoned Land Reuse Act 1993 legislation (S.299).

Previously, Maureen worked at the South Street Seaport Museum as Director, Corporate Relations; Gowanus Canal Development Corporation, as Executive Director; NYU’s Taub Urban Research Center as Assistant to the Director; The MacDowell Colony as Development Associate; and Baltimore Office of Promotion and Tourism as Events and Media Planner.

She received a Master of Urban Planning/Environmental Science from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in 1992 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1982.

John Pina

For over a decade John has worked in the Live Entertainment Industry and has Spearheaded Spanish Broadcasting Systems, SBS Entertainment Live Concert Division as Director of Content Development.

John has designed Marketing campaigns for Digital, Television and Grassroots marketing platforms tailored for sponsored increased sales.

As Creative Director with a business marketing background, John has created innovative sponsor programs, designed to socially invite trending conversations in such events as the sold out record breaking Calibash Urban concert in Staples Center, NYC Madison Square Garden, Megton Mundial de Polito Vega, Miami and many others.

Touring with World renowned artist Carlos Vives Ricardo Arjona, John has acted as Liaison Producer-Director of Quality Control between show Producer, Sponsors, Venues and all Dept heads in order to secure that all protocols were met and production went off on schedule.