Eva Bay was born in Hamburg in 1983. After initial experiences with the theatre at the Volksbühne Berlin, she studied acting at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam from 2004 to 2008. Eva Bay has worked as a freelance actor since 2009 and has made a name for herself through regular appearances at, among other venues, the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse and Ballhaus Ost and in the independent cinema scene. Isabell Suba’s film Männer zeigen Filme und Frauen ihre Brüste, where she played one of the leading roles, was shown at numerous festivals (including in Turin, Hof, Zurich, Berlin) and received the Max-Ophüls-Preis twice. She also appeared in Axel Ranisch’s feature Alki Alki. As part of Nora Abdel-Maksoud’s world premiere production of Kings, Eva Bay had already been invited to the Münchner Volkstheater for the »Radikal Jung« festival in 2015. Since 2016 she’s also appeared there playing one of the leading roles in Sie nannten ihn Tico (text and direction: Nora Abdel-Maksoud).
