Vala Ómarsdóttir is a graduate from Goldsmiths College, London and from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London.

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