Dr Eugenia Arsenis

At the General Assembly of the Federation of European Screen Directors that took place in Frankfurt on May 12, 2022, Eugenia Arsenis was elected member of the Executive Committee of the Federation as a delegate of the Greek Directors Guild. Dr Eugenia Arsenis is being elected as a representative of FERA at the Greek Directors Guild since 2016. Having already assumed the great responsibility of representing her Greek colleagues in Europe, she is called upon – now even more with her election to the Executive Committee – to contribute to the crucial labor and intellectual property issues concerning directors all over the world.

As a director, Eugenia Arsenis has collaborated with many international organizations. Among others, she was honored by the Antikenfestspiele International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama in the city of Trier, Germany, for "Mendelssohn’s Antigone," which she directed at the Royal Albert Hall for BBC Proms. She was further distinguished for the performance she directed for the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco Opera Center, in collaboration with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. Regarding her work as an author, her theatrical play “Women of Passion, Women of Greece," has traveled from Australia to India.

She is the Coordinator and Dramaturg of the Experimental Stage of the Greek National Opera since its founding and a Dramaturg Consultant at the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York.

She has served as a Board Member of the National Theatre of Northern Greece, the International Theatre Institute, the Greek Film Center, and the Registrar of Public Relations of the Hellenic Theatre Studies Association. She is a member of the Cultural Committee of the Hellenic–American Chamber of Commerce and Co-Founder of the international forum Artivism Drives Democracy. She has given lectures at several international conferences and has been teaching at various universities and cultural institutions.

She has studied Dramaturgy and Theatre Directing at the Department of Drama, Theatre, and Media Arts of the Royal Holloway University of London. She pursued her postgraduate studies in Philosophy (UCL) and her PhD in Philosophical Aesthetics, Opera, and Greek Tragedy at the Royal Holloway University of London. Besides Theater Directing, she studied Opera Directing (Boston University), Film Directing (New York Film Academy), and pursued courses in piano and theory of music, as well as dance. She is the recipient of several scholarships, including the Onassis Foundation Scholarship.