Zoe Sigalou

Zoe Sigalou (born in Athens, Greece in 1993) is an actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright. She studied Translation and Interpreting at the Ionian University, and Dramatic and Performing Arts at the Arhi (“Start”) Drama School headed by Nelly Karra. In 2022, she was selected to participate in the Talents Sarajevo Acting Studio at the Sarajevo Film Festival, and also attended the intensive Oxbelly Acting for the Screen workshop run by Faliro House Productions in partnership with the National Film and Television School (NTFS).

She appeared in “Spring” – directed by Youla Boudali – at the Athens Epidaurus Festival 2022. An excerpt from her work “Chromosome W: An Alphabet for Womankind” – which she directed in partnership with Roxanne Krimizi – was also presented that year at the Cockpit Theater in London as part of the Voila! Europe Theater Festival. Together with Marina Siotou, she has written and directed the films “Ode à Aphrodite” and “Corona Australis”, as well as “The Beast Who Walks Like a Man”, which is due to be shot in 2023.

In 2021, she was selected by the Goethe Institut to take part in the New Stages Southeast program for young theatrical authors with her play “Perseids or How to Party Hard”, which she will be directing in partnership with Marina Siotou at the Onassis Stegi Future N.O.W. Festival for young artists in the spring of 2023.