Michaela Antoniou  apart from being an author, is a director, actor and a theatre scholar. She holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, with a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY). She graduated with honours from the Department of Theatre Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Drama School of the National Theatre.

As an author, she composes pieces for the stage and has published two novels. She has translated for the stage works by David Mamet, Ariel Dorfman, David Storey, and others. As an actress, she has collaborated with directors such as Spyros Evangelatos, Giorgos Michailidis, Antonis Antonios, and others. As a director, she works in Greece and abroad and has staged plays by Chrysa Spilioti, Kostis Palamas, and Giorgos Maniotis, as well as original stage compositions in Athens and London. As an academic, her research and academic interests focus on the history, theory, and practice of acting and directing in the 20th and 21st centuries, in Greece and the international theatre field, and on the approach and analysis of the performative event.

She has taught at the Drama Department of Goldsmiths, University of London. She teaches at the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema and the Department of Theatre Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she is a lecturer since 2018.

She has been the scientific editor of books, albums, and performance programmes. She has participated in international conferences, scientific workshops, and symposiums of important theatre and academic institutions in Greece and abroad. She has contributed chapters to collective volumes and her articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals. She is Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed Journal Stanislavski Studies (Taylor & Francis / Routledge).