Io Voulgaraki trained as an actor at the National Theatre of Greece Drama School (2003-2006) and continued her studies at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Moscow, graduating with honours from the School of Directing under Leonid Heifetz (2008-2013).

Since 2013, she has worked as a director with some of the country’s most important cultural organisations, including the National Theatre of Greece, the State Theatre of Northern Greece, Onassis Stegi, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Greek National Opera, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. Internationally, she has directed at the Russian Academic Youth Theatre (RAMT) in Moscow and at the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław.

She is a co-founder of the Pyr theatre group, which has been active in Greece since 2013. In September 2023, she and the actor Argyris Xafis became joint artistic directors of the Theseum Theatre.

 

She has taught acting at the drama schools of the Athens Conservatoire and the Municipal Theatre of Patras, and directing at the National Theatre of Greece Drama School.

 

Latest updated: 02/04/2025