Sólveig Eva

Sólveig Eva grew up in Reykjavik, Iceland, from where she moved to London to study acting at LAMDA and Rose Bruford College. Accepting the advice of her acting teachers she felt the need to assimilate once she began working in Britain and America and acquired the name Eva Solveig with SAG and Actor's Equity. In 2020 she dropped her stage name and embraced her birth name. She trained physical theatre with Gardzienice in Poland, Physical Lab and Song of the Goat Theatre in London and at the International School of Theatrical Biomechanics in Italy. She studied acting at Stella Adler and with T.Schreiber in New York, did an acting Erasmus exchange with the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, and studied improv and sketch writing with the Upright Citizen's Brigade in New York. In 2012 she launched the theatre company Spindrift with her classmates Bergdís Júlía Jóhannsdóttir, Henriette Kristensen and Anna Korolainen Crevier. The company focuses on curiosity about human behavior, devising and experimental storytelling, and playing with identity and autonomy through voice and movement. Tinna Þorvalds Önnudóttir formally joined the company in 2019. Sólveig is an illustrator with her work focusing on murals, nature, portraiture, femininity and female experiences.