Biography
Amalia Kavali (Greek: Αμαλία Καβάλη) is a graduate of the Drama School of the Theatre Arts and the Department of Economics of the University of Aberdeen and University College London (MSc, Ford Foundation Scholar). Winner of the 2022 "Melina Mercouri" Award for her performance in the plays How Much Does It Cost to Live by M. Mayoque and Doctor of Honor by Calderon de la Barca directed by Thomas Moschopoulos. She was nominated again in 2018 for the monologue Orlando by B. Woolf directed by Ios Voulgarakis.
Maria Maganari has collaborated with R. Bouzarovska in the play My Husband at the Thission Theater. Indicatively, she has appeared as Viola in Twelfth Night (Art Theatre, directed by Giannis Kakleas), Claire in Doulas (Apothiki Theatre, directed by Giorgos Skevas), Heavenly in Sweet Bird of Youth (NTNB, directed by Vasilis Nikolaidis), and Clotilde in Destiny is called Clotilde. In Destiny is called Clotilde, she also undertook the adaptation, direction and production together with Giannis Sofologis. For this performance, they won the Bob Festival award.
She worked on television from 2019 to 2022 in Wild Bees (directed by L. Charitos) in the role of Ourania on ANT1, in 2023-2024 in Shipwreck (directed by G. Charitidis) in the role of Stella on Mega and in Innocents (directed by N. Koutelidakis) in the role of Areti on Mega in 2025.
She is the creator and exclusive researcher of the x.art.es project in which she tells the stories of artists who once inhabited the city by mapping their homes in the center of Athens.
She is a founding member of the WOM.A (women in arts) initiative which aims to contribute to the fight against gender stereotypes in the field of art.
