SÓLVEIG EVA MAGNÚSDÓTTIR

Sólveig is an award-winning Icelandic-American actress, author-illustrator and one of the founding members of Spindrift.

Sólveig is an award-winning author-illustrator and contributor to The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, McSweeney’s, and beyond. She is currently working on the whimsical tragicomedy Space Mama Piggy, about failures, motherhood and belonging, as well as a semi-autobiographical graphic novel about intimacy and connection.

As an actress she has appeared on Netflix, HBO, Showtime and TruTV. She has starred in a number of award-winning films in Europe and America, while her theatre credits include London’s West End, New York’s off-Broadway scene and Iceland’s fringe theatre.

Her physical theatre practice seeks to reconnect the performer to joy, pleasure, and rejected sides of their body, voice and being. Her training includes: RADA MA Theatre Lab, Stanford University, UCLAx, SVA, RISD, Rose Bruford College (BA), LAMDA, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Meyerhold’s Biomechanics in Italy, Gardzienice Theatre in Poland, Stella Adler, T.Schreiber Studios, Knickerbocker and UCB in New York.

hi at solaeva.com