Maria Karamoutsiou was born in Thessaloniki. She studied at the School of Drama, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University Thessaloniki and piano at the Conservatory of Northern Greece. In her bachelor thesis she combined the fields of music and theater. In Greece she worked as a drama educator for several years and collaborated in educational projects with the Hellenic Drama/Theater Education Network, the International Film Festival of Thessaloniki, the International Puppet Theater and Pantomime Festival of Kilkis, Greece and others. In 2016 she received her MA in Drama/Theater Education from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. In her master thesis she dealt with the Drama/Theater Education in the urban public space and the promotion of the political participation of teenagers through it. She was assistant director at the Theater of Ulm and has directed a performance for children with the Greek theater group Prova ZH in Zurich. From 2016 she works as a drama/theater practitioner in the field of music theater at the Theater of Würzburg.