Eva Odrischinsky, a 1983 graduate of the Finnish Theatre Academy, began her career as a director of classics, musicals, children's plays, and experimental works. Her strong interest in the human voice as a means of dramatic expression gradually moved her artistic focus from the theater to sound and radio where she directed adaptations of such contemporary French writers as Marguerite Duras and Nathalie Sarraute. In 1988 she started doing freelance work for the features department, Yleisradio.