MARO LESIOTI
About Me.
Maro Lesioti is an actress and musician, born in Athens in 1995. Her artistic education began in 2001 with music, taking up the piano at the age of 6. In 2018, she completed her music studies, graduating from the Hellenic Conservatory (Piano Performance Department) and began theater training in impro with Vasiliki Kissa, which she completed two years later. In the summer of 2023, she graduated from “Modern Times” Drama School. She continued her studies at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
In 2018, Maro founded the impro group Raining Cats And Bats. The troupe directs and stages the improvisational theater works “THE VILLAGE” and “INTERROGATION”, which have been performed in several Greek theaters, while also presented in international festivals in Sweden, Norway, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Spain and Ireland. In 2023. she directed the impro shows “EDMOND-JEAN-WILLIAM” and “LENIO & PIPITSA”.
Straight after her graduation, she starred in the plays: “MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING” (2023), “EXTREMITIES” (2023) and “THE LAST BIRD” (2023-2024). At the same time, in early 2023 she accepted an offer to take over the production management of The Last Bird, as well as to act as Frank Totino's assistant director. Right now, she is rehearsing for the scripted plays “ULTRAS” (actress) and “WHITE ROSE” (actress, director), she created and is directing the impro show “HIERONYMUS BOSCH” and is curating a hybrid (scripted and impro) project under the aegis of Culture Moves Europe Programme.
She is the producer of “Improv Nights” in Athens and has been teaching in impro workshops in Athens since 2020. She has also taught in Crete(GR) and the Netherlands and applied improvisation in corporate environments in collaboration with Women Do Business. She is one of the artistic directors of the second international Improv Residency, in collaboration with Greenbridge and the Speakeasy Asheville Improv School, which will be held in Greece and the United States of America.
