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In her work as a director Salome Dastmalchi is focusing on enabling the actors to develop an emotional connection to whatever they’re playing on stage. 

Playing a role means being full of your own feelings, not being an empty shell for a character of a technical virtuoso. Her work is based on teaching nuts and bolts, tools and improvisation skills, that help the actors to get connected to their body, soul and personality. 

She is working with methods, that help fill the actors’ mind and body with emotion so they can play with their heart. Salome Dastmalchi is concentrating on developing an organic way of acting and as much permeability in the actor as possible. 
To her it is crucial, that individual actors feel fully comfortable with what they’re doing and representing on stage. The matrix of acting is access to the full range of human emotions.

Salome Dastmalchi was born in Berlin and studied acting at the University of the Arts in Bern from 2002 to 2006, subsequently touring over one year with the production of Return to Sender by Helena Waldmann. 

In 2010 she had roles in numerous plays including as Katarina in a production of Dämonen (Demons) in Basel, in Das blaue, blaue Meer (The Blue, Blue Sea) at Heimathafen Neukölln and many others. 

She debuted as a playwright and director at HAU 3 with Mein Herz ist voller Hass – und das liebe ich (My Heart is Full of Hate – and I Love It). In 2012 her second production Run Brother Run had its premiere there. 

Also at Naunystraße, together with the "akademie der autodidakten", she developed SCHIZO!, which was nominated to be part of the youth theatre festival "Theatertreffen der Jugend 2013". In 2014 she developed An! together with teenagers, which ran during the Jugendfestspiele at the Sophiensaele. 

In 2016/2017 Salome Dastmalchi regularly did readings for the series Prosa der Verhältnisse of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation in cooperation with the Maxim Gorki Theater. 

Her first collaboration with the Junges DT was at the 2016 Autumn Camp, followed by Draufgängerinnen - All Adventurous Women Do by Tanja Šljivar and Mein ziemlich seltsamer Freund Walter by Sibylle Berg. 

Since 2012 she has given acting workshops, among others in collaboration with the Schaubühne and the Berliner Ensemble.