Vicky Thalassinou was born and lives in Athens. She graduated with honours from the Department of Theatre Studies at the School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is also a graduate of the D. Fotiadis Higher School of Dramatic Art and studied pedagogy and group facilitation at the Athens Centre for Educational Research and Studies.

She teaches Creative Writing at the Hellenic Open University.

She has attended numerous seminars and workshops in acting, film and writing, including a physical theatre workshop with Sotigui Kouyaté, writing workshops at the National Book Centre of Greece (EKEBI), and a playwriting workshop with Andreas Flourakis.

She has been writing plays and children’s stories from an early age. In 1996, she received an award from the Women’s Literary Association for her play Welcome, Dionysus. In 2015, together with M. Mallouchou, she received First Prize from the Scriptwriters Guild of Greece for the adapted feature-film screenplay Ratsa Negativa.

Her play You’re Actors and It Shows was staged in 2003 as part of the Empty Space Festival at the National Theatre of Greece. Whatever Happened to Richard? was presented in 2012 at the Devised Theatre Festival at Neos Kosmos Theatre and at Vryssaki Theatre. In 2010, her play Alice in the Land of Meals was staged at Orfeas Theatre, while in 2017 her play Equation, based on the myth of Antigone, was presented at Vafeio Theatre.

She has published two children’s books with Minoas Publications: The Giraffe Who Loved Hats (2006), which went into two editions and was presented at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and The Kidnapping of Santa Claus (2007).

As an actress, she has appeared in numerous theatre productions, including Euripides’ The Bacchae, directed by N. Paroikos; Aristophanes’ Peace, directed by Chr. Tsagas; Bernard-Marie Koltès’s Roberto Zucco, directed by N. Sakalidis; The Word That Remains; The Last Garment, directed by N. Grammatikos; and Eftyhia, directed by Angelos Frantzis, among others.

Since 2009, she has been a founding member of the La Strada theatre company, for which she writes and co-directs.