Dr Evi Stamatiou
Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
Acting for Stage and Screen, Authorial Acting, Actor Training as Transformative Practice, Drama-based Pedagogies, Equitable & Innovative Pedagogies, Soft Skills Development using XR Technologies and Creative Interventions for Communities in HE and beyond.
Department of Music, Writing & Performance , School of Arts and Creative Industries
Dr Evi Stamatiou is a practitioner-researcher of inclusive and interdisciplinary actor training. Her internationally funded research integrates VR, psychology, and performance to enhance resilience, empathy, and a growth mindset. She leads the multi-project Ethnoacting in VR: DIY Soft Skills Development and lectures in Acting for Stage and Screen at the University of East London.
Qualifications
- PhD, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, 2013 – 2021
- Certificate, Filmmaking, New York Film Academy.
- Certificate, Acting for Film, New York Film Academy.
- MA, Arts Policy and Management, Birkbeck College, University of London.
- MA, Theatre Directing, University of East London.
Areas Of Interest
- Acting
- Actor Training
- Inclusive pedagogies
- Innovative pedagogies
- Comedy
- Social representations in drama
- Ethnoacting in VR: DIY Soft Skills Development
OVERVIEW
Dr Evi Stamatiou is an award-winning practitioner-researcher of inclusive and impactful actor training with two decades of international experience as an actor, director, and creative. She is Senior Lecturer in Acting for Stage and Screen at the University of East London, holds a PhD in Inclusive Actor Training from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE.
Evi has authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications and delivered keynotes across academia and industry. Her interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, and transdisciplinary research addresses challenges in education and healthcare and has been funded by the Arts Council England, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and the British Science Festival.
She leads the multi-project Ethnoacting in VR: DIY Soft Skills Development, an intervention that enhances various soft skills as needed by communities and professionals. Evi is Interdisciplinary Research Associate Editor for Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Journal, serves on the Advisory Board of the Stanislavsky Research Centre, chairs the Outstanding Book Award Committee at ATHE, and is a reviewer for multiple publishers and journals.
Most recent research
Stamatiou, Cox, Thoma, Balla, & Sanni. (forthcoming 2026). Ethnoacting in VR: An equivalent to role-playing in healthcare education. In Tizzard-Kleister & Firth, T. (Eds.), Using Applied Drama in Nursing and Healthcare Education: A Handbook for Educators, Routledge.
Stamatiou, Thoma, & Sanni. (2025). Ethnoacting in VR for Resilience in Acting Students: A Vakhtangov-inspired intervention. In Stamatiou, E. & Carnicke, S. M. (Eds.), Stanislavsky and Actor Training for the Screen, Routledge.
Stamatiou & Carnicke (eds.) (2025) Stanislavsky and Screen Actor Training. Routledge.
Stanislavsky and Screen Actor Training
Stamatiou (2025) “The Actor’s Dual Mindfulness: A Journey to Social Cognition,” in Stanislavski and Mindfulness. Routledge.
Stamatiou (2024). Liminal Casting: Self-Inquisitive Scene Study in Actor Training. In Peck, S. & E. Stamatiou (Eds.), Critical Acting Pedagogy: Intersectional Approaches (pp. 121-134). Routledge.
Peck & Stamatiou (eds.) (2024) Critical Acting Pedagogy: Intersectional Approaches. Routledge.
Critical Acting Pedagogy: Intersectional Approaches
Stamatiou (2024) “‘Call Me by My Name’: Inclusive Actor Training for Second-Language Users.” Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. ‘Call Me by My Name’: inclusive actor training for second language users
External roles
Interdisciplinary Research Associate Editor, Theatre Dance and Performance Training Journal; Advisory Board Member, Stanislavsky Research Centre; Chair, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Cooling Up: Helping People Connect
How can we connect with the Youth of today?
During her TED talk, Evi poses that by a process of 'Cooling Up', we can more effectively engage with the younger generations.
PUBLICATIONS
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Publications
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Full publications list
Visit the research repository to view a full list of publications
- Parodying Through Song: How Comic Devices in King George III’s Songs in Hamilton Challenge Contemporary Dispositions About the Symbolic Value of Youth Culture in: Wetmore, K. J., Jr. (ed.) Hamilton, History and Hip Hop: Essays on an American Musical. McFarland, pp.73-88
- Liminal Casting: Self-Inquisitive Scene Study in Actor Training in: Peck, L. and Stamatiou, E. (ed.) Critical Acting Pedagogy: Intersectional Approaches. Routledge, pp.121-134
- ‘Call Me by My Name’: inclusive actor training for second language users Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. 15 (2), pp. 162-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2024.2335649
- Emotion Memory versus Physical Action Towards Anti-racist Pedagogies that Make Way for Critical Praxis in: Scott, S. and Skelton, J. (ed.) Stanislavski and Race: Questioning the “System” in the 21st Century. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, pp.62-79
- Bourdieu in the Studio: Decolonising and Decentering Actor Training through Ludic Activism London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
- Albania in: Remshardt, R. and Mancewicz, A. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
- A screen actor prepares: Self-taping by reversing Stanislavsky’s Method of Physical Actions Stanislavski Studies. 11 (1), pp. 63-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/20567790.2023.2196297
- Developing the Critical Verbatim Theater Artist during the Pandemic: A Transatlantic Collaboration Artspraxis. 9 (1), pp. 13-33
- Joan Littlewood and Ariane Mnouchkine against the canon: developing the actors’ social representations through clowning Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. 13 (4), pp. 519-535. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2021.1968026
- Pierre Bourdieu and actor training: towards decolonising and decentering actor training pedagogies Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. 13 (1), pp. 96-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2021.1943509
- Inclusive Casting Debunked: Towards Holistic Interventions in Staged Performance Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Equality and Diversity. 6 (2)
- Stepping Forward: An Exploration of Devised Theatre’s Democratic Designs in an Actor-Training Setting in: Aragay, M., Botham, P. and Prado-Pérez, J. R. (ed.) World Political Theatre and Performance: Theories, Histories, Practices . BRILL, pp.98-113
