Chrysi Sylaidi was born in Athens, Greece. She started expressing her love for the arts and performing from the early age of 8 where she would participate in the majority of her school’s performances. At the age of 13 she acted in her first theatre production as a member of the chorus in the play Bacchae by Euripides, produced by the Ziridis Classical Theatre Company, where her passion for acting, artistic collaboration, ancient Greek drama, and classical theatre was born. One of her other significant performances during her highschool school years that solidified her love for acting, was Hecuba, in the play Hecuba by Euripides in Athens, Greece where the production went on to win 2nd place at the 14th National Greek Theatre Competition Awards.

Upon graduating highschool and being honored with the Ziridis Award for Drama, she went to pursue a degree from the Athens University for Business and Economics where she was admitted 3d nationally and was honored with a full scholarship. Before getting her degree in Economics with a major in Economic Theory and Politics, she kept acting in multiple award-winning productions in some of Athens's most established theaters and in Greek Regional festivals.

After college, she moved to New York City and studied at the 3-year Professional Conservatory of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts equivalent, in April 2019.

After graduating she went on to star in the world premier of the play The Sun Tries Dating which won Manhattan Repertory Theatre's Best Works of 2018 competition. In 2019, she starred in the critically acclaimed show Ftistos o Makaritis as Vasiliki (The Spitting Image of the Departed), written by Peny Filaktaki, directed by Ioanna Katsarou, and produced by the Greek Cultural Center in Astoria, NY.

In the same year, she also performed in the world premier of Golden Girl By The Sea which also made its debut at the historic Greek Cultural Center in NY. For her leading performance in this production, she won 2nd place at the BroadwayWorld Awards 2020 in the category Performer of the Decade.

In October 2019, she was invited to participate and host the 13th New York City Greek Film Festival hosted at the FIAF Florence Gould Hall under the guidance of Maria Tzompanaki in New York City. Among others the Festival honored Greek director Niko Peraki and Emmy award winning news anchor Ernie Anastos. The ceremony was broadcasted at Fox-5 channel in the US and Ant1 TV in Greece among others.

Another notable moment from her career was in November 2019 where she had the honor to star in the off-Broadway theatrical production of the greek classic “Goodnight Margaret”/“Kαληνύχτα Μαργαρίτα”, directed by Theodoros Petropoulos and Phyto Stratis and produced by Cyprus New York Productions Inc. The show enjoyed a sold-out run.

In June 2020 and June 2021, she was one of the honored artists and producers at the international Global Forms Theatre Festival hosted by the off-Broadway, Obie Award Winning, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre and New York Theatre Salon. She starred in three of the theatre’s productions: The short documentary: Through my Eyes, the live streamed theatrical event Time Zone Free and, an experimental collaborative piece called Freedom based on Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos’s poem, Freedom. The festival gained a lot of traction and was covered by multiple online media and press including the New York Times where it was mentioned as one of the must see events of June 2020.

In the summer of 2020, Ms. Sylaidi was cast in the leading role of Madam C in the play The Dead Can Zoom by the established off-Broadway theatre company, Theatre East. This production was presented as part of their annual 5X5 Drama Series.

In 2021, she starred in the world premier of In Chorus in New York, a production by Eclipses Group Theatre NY in collaboration with the National Theatre of Greece. This production was part of the Greek- Play Project New York 2021.

In 2022, she collaborated again with the Eclipses Group Theatre NY, for the staged production of the show Shelter in Love staged at the Laguardia Performing Arts Center’s main stage.

In 2023, she started working as an actor with The Fled Collective (formerly known as The Bats) for their recurring production of Serials at the off-Broadway Theatre, The Flea.

In 2023, she collaborated once more with the Eclipses Group Theatre NY, for the world premiere of the play Raving Reason staged at the Laguardia Performing Arts Center’s main stage where she performed the role of Tiresias.

Some of her other most notable New York City credits include; Cassius in Julius Caesar (Riffraff NYC), Maxx in Science Project (The Flea Theatre), The Narrator in The Story of Kemal (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Marya Antonova in Government Inspector (Eclipses Group Theatre New York), Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, Pope Joan in Top Girls, Nora in Escape from Happiness, Costard in Love’s Labour's Lost, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing (Stella Adler Studio Of Acting NY), Rhonda in Almost, Maine, Woman in DEAR, and Julie in the Sabbath Elevator (TeamTheatre). Her Greek credits include; Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible (Akadimos Theatro), Goneril in King Lear and Mama Ubi in Ubi Roi (Theatro Polis) among others.

For TV, one of her most notable moments is her participation in the award-winning comedic mini TV series Stephie With A Why (2020) in the role of Macrame. The first season of the series is still enjoying a critically acclaimed and successful run in dozens of film and TV festivals in the US, Canada, and Europe among which, Toronto Indie Filmmakers Festival, LAFA Los Angeles Film Awards and, New York International Screenplay Awards.

As a producer, Chrysi participated in the Off- Broadway production of The Night Alive in collaboration with Maiden Productions in 2022, the Global Forms Theatre Festival 2020 and 2021 (a multicultural festival with more than 100 immigrant artists participating hosted by Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), TeamTheatre’s Fun Fast Feb Festival – a festival of 12 original short-plays in 2020, and TeamTheatre’s Almost, Maine in 2019, among others. 

As a director she has worked in the short play No Friends by Myrna Davonne at FFFF in 2020 for which she won a BroadwayWorld Award Nomination for Director of the Decade.

She also directed and produced TeamTheatre’s highly anticipated first short film, BAD JUJU.

In total, she has over 17 years of acting experience and has participated in over 35 productions in Greece and in New York. She is a proud member of the Stella Adler Studio’s Alumni Council (SASAC), a resident artist at the Greek Cultural Center in NYC, a founder and co-Artistic Director of the award-winning multinational company, TeamTheatre which aims to promote the celebration of cultural diversity in its theatrical works. She is also a member of Dirty Laundry Theatre LLC.