Gabriella Triantafyllis is general manager and performance programmer at BIOS, Athens' center for today's art and cross media and is managing BIOS' annex building, Romantso, the first Greek creative industries incubator. She has worked as a producer, director and an actress in short films and has been trained in the theater alongside Peter Stein, George Kimoulis, Gerard Depardieu, Ben Ormerod and Jean-Paul Scarpitta. She co-found the music theater company The Beggars' Operas with the intention of mounting modern, low-cost productions of opera and music theater in unconventional venues. Ms. Triantafyllis holds a B.A. in theater studies from the University of Athens, an M.A. in film and TV production from the University of Bristol, UK, and trained in acting at the Contemporary Theater of Athens and in black and white photography with Plato Rivellis.