Vala Ómarsdóttir is a film director and a performance maker from Iceland.

Nominated for the Director of the Year, GRÍMAN award 2022, the Icelandic Performing Arts Awards, for the theatre production TÆRING.

Her recent directing work includes: Nánd/Proximity (theatre), Sprungur/Fractures (short film), Tæring (theatre), ÉG/I (short film), Dætur/Daughters (short film), Mamma ætlar að sofna/Mother will sleep (short film), Hamur/Skin (short dance film), ROF (experimental short film) and Strengir (theatre).

Before she moved back to her hometown Reykjavík she studied and worked as a performer, performance maker and a director in London and New York for 10 years. Working with award winning companies such as Tangled Feet, Bottlefed and 11:18 Theatre Company.

Her short film ÉG/I has been touring over 30 film festivals and has won four awards at the RVK Feminist Film Festival, and the Best Fiction Short, 2021, The Grand Jury Honorable Mention for Best International Short at Outfest, LA, 2019. The Best Fictional Short at Trans Pride Brighton, 2019, And the Best Short Film at the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, 2019.

Vala has a M.A degree in Performance Making (focusing on directing) from Goldsmiths College in London, and a M.A degree in Performing (focusing on acting and devising) from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She also studied acting in a part-time program at the HB Acting Studio in NYC and a full-time 2 years dance and performing program at the Broadway Dance Center in NYC. Additionally, she holds a diploma from in Screenwriting and Film Directing from The Icelandic Film School.

Vala is currently working on her first feature film Bara barn, produced by Ursus Parvus.