Dinah Geiger

In the 80s I studied music and dance at university and continued throughout the 90s as co-founder and dancer of the dance company LENAS in Zurich, Switzerland. An injury made me stop professional dancing which led to a shift in my profession. In 1998 I got accepted into the Actors Studio Drama School in New York City where I studied under some of the finest teachers like Sam Schacht, Elizabeth Kemp, Arthur Penn and many more. Ever since graduating with a Masters of Fine Arts in 2001 I went on to work in film and theatre in both English and German. My education in the US taught me, among many valuable things, the skill to act in a foreign language. This came in very handy for my character of Iva Svarcova, where I had to act in Czech, learning the language for the audition and the role, as I did not speak a word beforehand.