Katerina Evangelatos

Katerina Evangelatos

Theatre and Opera Director & Artistic Director of Athens Epidaurus Festival

Athens Epidaurus Festival, Greece

Katerina Evangelatos is an acclaimed stage director for theater and opera and has been appointed Artistic Director of the Athens Epidaurus Festival in 2019. She is the first woman and the youngest person ever to hold this position. Under her direction, the Festival focuses in international co-productions and world premieres, as well as in innovative approaches on ancient drama, significantly enlarging audiences and attracting young spectators. Throughout her tenure, the Festival has established its position as one of Europe’s leading
cultural organisations and has extended its activities during the winter, inventing new platforms and spinning dynamic discussions within international and local audiences.
She has directed over 30 big scale theatre and opera productions at major venues and institutions in Greece and abroad, including National Theatre of Greece, Athens Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Stegi, Greek National Opera, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural
Centre, Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre in Russia, and the State Theater of Augsburg in Germany. For her productions she has gained international recognition and has been awarded with several prestigious distinctions.

Evangelatos is repeatedly invited to give master classes, seminars and lectures both in Greece and abroad (NYU, University of Athens, Harvard in Greece, University of Bari and more).