Ana Bayat is a multilingual, multidisciplinary storyteller with over three decades of experience in theatre, film, voice-over, creative writing, and language/dialect coaching worldwide. Ana is also the creator of the critically-acclaimed show Mimi’s Suitcase (winner of Heidelberg’s Iranian Theatre Audience Choice Award Festival, recipient of Neda Nobari Foundation Grant in Innovative Arts, and shortlisted for an Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award at 70th Edinburgh Festival Fringe). Following in her father's footsteps, Ana trained in the Stanislavski system with direct students of the master before completing further studies in speech and dramatic arts, stagecraft, language, linguistics, literature, translation, and film in England.  Thanks to her multicultural upbringing, Ana is fluent in Spanish, UK and US English, French, Persian, and proficient in German, Italian and Catalan. Ana recently coached Glenn Close to speak a seamless Persian in the Apple TV+ series Tehran, and was the dialect coach for Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of English as well as that of Studio Theatre where she was also the cultural and casting consultant. www.anabayat.com / @theanabayat