Eleni Efthymiou works as a director, dramaturg, performer, soprano and theatre composer. She studied theatre direction and acting at the Department of Theatre of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and opera singing as a student of mezzo soprano Rositza Troeva.

She is in favour of an idea of theatre as an ongoing, everlasting investigation of the connection between human condition and society. Interested in creating acoustic environments that evoke the principal themes of each play, she works primarily with the medium of sound. Moving between the aesthetics of art, cinema, documentary and fiction, she imaginatively invents a new language of theatre. She is very active both in classic forms of theatre and in experimental forms and community based theatre and has collaborated with many different groups of people.

In 2013 she became a permanent collaborator of En Dynamei Theatre Ensemble, a mixed group of artists with and without disabilities. In 2022 Eleni Efthymiou was honoured with Eleftheria Sapountzi 2022 Prize for the quality and complexity of her artistic work, combined with her moving attempt to create bridges between art and social reality. She worked as the Head of Experimental Stage for Emerging Artists of National Theatre of Greece for the theatrical season 2024-2025.

Latest updated: 30/06/2026