Κατερίνα Ευαγγελάτου

Katerina Evangelatos is an acclaimed theatre and opera director and since 2019 Artistic Director of the Athens Epidaurus Festival.

She is the first woman and youngest person ever to hold this position. Under her direction, the Festival focuses on international co-productions and world premieres, as well as 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 the National Theatre of Greece, the Athens Epidaurus Festival, the Onassis Stegi, the Greek National Opera, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, the Hong Kong Arts Festival and the Aranya Theatre Festival in China, the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre in Russia, and the Augsburg State  Theatre in Germany.

For her productions she has gained international recognition and has been awarded with several prestigious distinctions. Most recently, she was awarded one of the highest honors of the French Republic, the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, in recognition of her contributions as a theatre director and as the Artistic Director of the Athens Epidaurus Festival.

Evangelatos is repeatedly invited to speak in international conferences, forums and festivals (European Theatre Convention, Athens Talks, Seoul Performing Arts Festival, China Shanghai International Arts Festival, Delphi Economic Forum) as well as give master classes, seminars and lectures both in Greece and abroad (NYU, University of Athens, Harvard in Greece, University of Bari, and more).