Ioli Andreadi

Ioli Andreadi studied at the Theater Studies Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA) and the Art Theater Karolos Koun Drama School in Athens, and pursued postgraduate studies in Cultural Politics and Management at the Department of Communication, Media, and Culture of Panteion University in Athens, and in Theater Directing at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. She obtained her PhD in Performance, Theater, and Ritual (Performance Research Group, King's College London) as an Onassis Foundation Scholar. A Fulbright Foundation grant (Fulbright for Artists) enabled her to conduct artistic research on the relationship between tragedy and musical theater in New York, that culminated into teaching a masterclass at the City Center Studios, while grants from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation supported her theater training and artistic work in the US (2009–2013).

Combining writing, directing, and teaching the actors in her performances has been the basis of her professional work in Greece and internationally (2003–present; Greece, England, Italy, America, Bulgaria), a work which is complemented by twelve publications of her original and adapted theatrical works, all by Kapa Publishing House. The performances she directs at The Tank in New York are made possible by the generous sponsorship of the George & Victoria Karelia Foundation ("The Artaud Diptych," 2023; "The Cenci Family," 2024).

Her monograph, "Theater and Education: Theory and Practice" (Kapa Publishing House, 2023), stems from her interest in the importance of theatrical art in preschool and school education. Antonin Artaud's thinking regarding theater, the human brain, and education engaged her postdoctoral research, both at King's College London (2015–2016) and at the Laboratory of Experimental Neurophysiology of the University of Athens (2018–present), in collaboration with Professor Cornelia Poulopoulou's team. Her monograph, "Performance: From Theory to Practice (Directing, Philosophy, and Culture),” and her reworked doctoral thesis, “Anastenaria: Ritual – Theatre – Performance; An Experiential Study,” were published by Kapa Publishing House (2020). She has contributed to Katia Gerou's practical acting textbook, "When the Heartbeats Change: Conversations on Theater with Ioli Andreadi” (2010) and the collective volume "The Body: Art and Medicine; Illness, Introspection, Healing," edited by Pepi Rigopoulou (2016). She has also translated Euripides' “Ion” from the ancient Greek (2017).

She has worked in higher education in Greece and abroad. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of West Macedonia.