Katerina Mavrogeorgi

Katerina Mavrogeorgi was born and raised in Athens, Greece. She graduated from Nellie Karra’s Higher School of Dramatic Art ARCHI and the Department of Communication, Media, and Culture of the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. She writes, acts, and directs both for the cinema and the theater. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by Artworks (2022). In 2019, she wrote the play “The Bathers,” which was presented in Skrow Theater under her direction. “The Bathers” was presented again in May 2022 at Skrow Theater and Tempus Verum, and in February 2023, at the DIPETHE Kavala – “Antigoni Valakou” theater. The play was released into a book by the publication house “Kappa Ekdotiki.” In 2021, she authored a new play titled “Ships Detained at the Port.” In 2020, together with Aineias Tsamatis and Yannis Karabatsos, she wrote the script for the short film “The Crossing,” which she subsequently directed in collaboration with Aineias Tsamatis.

As a member of the Inkal theater group, she has worked as an actress and director in the performances “The Story of Self-Sacrifice” (Athens Epidaurus Festival 2014) and “Proof” (2018). As a theater actress, she has worked with the companies Patari Project and Blitz Theater Group, while she is one of the founding members of Skrow Theater Group. In theater, she has collaborated with directors Thomas Moschopoulos, Vassilis Mavrogeorgiou, Argyris Xafis, and Vasia Attarian, among others. In 2017, she was nominated for the “Melina Merkouri” Best Theater Actress Award. In 2017, she wrote the script for the short film script Maneki Neko, in collaboration with Manolis Mavris, who also directed the film. In cinema, she has collaborated with the filmmakers Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Zacharias Mavroeidis, Pantelis Voulgaris, and Thelgia Petraki.