Evan Yionoulis

Evan Yionoulis has directed new plays and classics in New York and across the U.S.

She opened Manhattan Theatre Club’s Biltmore Theatre (Broadway) with Richard Greenberg’s The Violet Hour, directed his Everett Beekin (Lincoln Center Theatre) and received an Obie Award for her direction of his Three Days of Rain (Manhattan Theatre Club), having directed the premieres of all three at South Coast Repertory.  She directed critically-acclaimed productions of Adrienne Kennedy’s He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Ohio State Murders (Lortel Award, Best Revival) and the Off-Broadway premiere of Howard Brenton’s Sore Throats for Theatre for a New Audience, as well as the premieres of Daisy Foote’s Him (Primary Stages) and Bhutan (Cherry Lane).

As a resident director at Yale Repertory Theatre, she directed Cymbeline, Richard II, The Master Builder, Galileo, King Stag (which she adapted from the Gozzi with composer Mike Yionoulis and Catherine Sheehy), and numerous other productions, including Guillermo Calderón’s Kiss and the world premiere of Kirsten Greenidge’s Bossa Nova.

She has directed at the Mark Taper Forum, the Huntington, NY Shakespeare Festival, the Vineyard, 2econd Stage, Dallas Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Denver Center, PlayMakers Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival and many other theatres.

She directed Seven, a documentary theatre piece about extraordinary women from across the globe who work for human rights, in New York, Boston, Washington, Aspen, London, Deauville, and New Delhi.

Her short film, Lost and Found, made with Mike Yionoulis, premiered at Cleveland International Film Festival.

She has received a Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship, Works-in-Progress Grant, and the foundation’s prestigious Statuette.

A nationally-recognized teacher of acting, Evan is the Richard Rodgers Dean and Director of the Drama Division of the Juilliard School. She is the author of Listening and Talking: A Pathway to Acting, published by Methuen.