BIO /

Isavella Kasimati (Ισαβέλλα Κασιμάτη) was born in Athens (1995), and holds a Performing Arts Degree (Municipal Theatre of Patras) and a Bachelor in Psychology (Panteion University, University of Warsaw).

In theatre, she has collaborated as a performer with Michail Marmarinos, Cezaris Graužinis, Sjoerd Wagenaar, Gemma Hansson Carbone, and as an assistant director with Yiannis Niarros at Matchbox: The Musical (Onassis Stegi). In October 2023, she co-directed and performed in Odyssey, an acting duet that won the 1st Award for Best Performance in Ithaca Theatre Festival.

In the cinema, she appeared in films directed by Antonis Tsonis, Panagiotis Fafoutis, Antonios Vallindras, Alexis Mourtzanos, and has worked as an assistant director in the feature film Brando with a glass eye. She is the director of the docu-fiction short film Pyjama party (2023), which was a finalist at the 1st Mobile Film Contest by Cinematek, and has produced two podcasts that entered the competition section of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival: Concerto for Two Trumpets (2022), and Portraits of Objects (2021).

Isavella was a Field Reporter at Istorima, a project of collecting oral stories from people all around Greece, supported by Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2020-21) and has worked with adolescent drug users and their families at the rehabilitation center "KETHEA Strofi", based in the Juvenile Prisons of Avlona and the Court of Athens.

She is an artist in residence at the program of Dramaturgy held by 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture and currently focuses her interest on the genre of auto-fiction. Through experimenting with the limits between biography and fiction, she explores the healing aspect of structuring personal narratives under the guise of fiction, as a way to empower and reinvent ourselves on our own terms.