About
Evan Yionoulis is the Richard Rodgers Dean and Director of the Drama Division of the Juilliard School, having formerly been Professor in the Practice of Acting and Directing at Yale School of Drama, where she taught for twenty years.
Directing
She is an award-winning director who opened Manhattan Theatre Club's Biltmore Theatre (Broadway) with Richard Greenberg's The Violet Hour, directed his Everett Beekin at Lincoln Center Theatre, and received an Obie Award for her direction of his Three Days of Rain at Manhattan Theatre Club.
She directed the critically acclaimed productions of Adrienne Kennedy's He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and Ohio State Murders (Lortel Award for Best Revival), as well as the Off-Broadway premiere of Howard Brenton's Sore Throats. She directed Tom Stoppard's Hapgood (starring Kate Burton) at Williamstown Theatre Festival.
As a long-time resident director at Yale Repertory Theatre, she directed Cymbeline, Richard II, The Master Builder, Brecht's Galileo, Caryl Churchill's Owners, and the world premiere of Kirsten Greenidge's Bossa Nova, among many others.
She has directed Seven, a documentary theatre piece about extraordinary women working for human rights, in New York, Boston, Washington, London, and New Delhi.
Writing & Collaboration
As a writer, she adapted Carlo Gozzi's The King Stag and Euripides' Medea with collaborator Mike Yionoulis, who also wrote music and lyrics. Their most ambitious project is Redhand Guitar, a multi-platform piece about five generations of musicians across an American century.
She received a Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship and was subsequently awarded the Foundation's prestigious statuette. She serves as President of the Executive Board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.