WReza Abdoh was an Iranian-born director and playwright known for large-scale, experimental theatrical productions, often staged in unusual spaces like warehouses and abandoned buildings.
WʻAbdul-Ḥusayn Nūshīn Kohrāsāni was an Iranian playwright, theatre director and translator. He was one of the first people who introduced western style theatre to Iran.
WMohammad Aghebati is an Iranian theater director, scenic designer and actor. He has staged numerous dramas during his career, including Oedipus the King by Sophocles, AKA Jocasta; God’s Dead Words, Hamlet, The Prince of Grief by William Shakespeare, and Kiss You and Tears by Vaclav Havel.
WHassan Bastani Persian: حسن باستاني, born 1962 in Tehran) is an Iranian researcher, playwright, designer, theater director, and screenwriter.
WMajid Beheshti is an Iranian actor, film producer, and theater director. He has also acted in various Television series. He has garnered most of his popularity and fame from his participation in these programs.
WBahrām Beyzāie is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and ostād ("master") of Persian letters, arts and Iranian studies.
WBehrouz Gharibpour is an Iranian theatre director and pioneer of traditional Persian puppet theatre.
WAzita Hajian is an Iranian actress.
WAlireza Koushk Jalali, is an Iranian theatre director and playwright. Currently he resides in Cologne, Germany, where he also made his first German production in 1986.
WAmir Reza Koohestani is an Iranian theatre maker who was born in Shiraz, Iran.
WLoreta Hairapedian Tabrizi was an Iranian Armenian stage and film actress.
WSharmin Meymandi Nejad is an Iranian writer, director, researcher of social sciences and the establisher of the Imam Ali Society. Sharmin was born in 1970 in Tehran. His father was Professor Mohammad Hosein Meymandi Nejad, a famous scientist and author and his mother was Fateme Lord
WMohsen Moeini is an Iranian author and director. His work mainly centers around his philosophical and historical preoccupations. As well as directing his own plays, he has directed plays by foreign authors such as Peter Handke and Rainer Werner Fassbinder whose works he staged in Iran for the first time. He has directed the first play to be staged in the Milad Tower.
WHengameh Mofid is an Iranian film/theater actress, director, dramatist and University tutor.
WBahman Mohassess was an Iranian painter, sculptor, translator, and theatre director. His oeuvre comprises paintings, sculptures and collages. He was also a celebrated translator of literary works. His works are highly collected and extremely rare. He is said to have destroyed many of his own works, and those that become available at auction are now highly sought after.
WHossein Nuri is an Iranian painter, playwright and filmmaker.
WMostafa Oskooyi was the first professional actor, director, arts critic, and veteran activist of Iranian theatre who qualified as an actor in Tehran. At the Moscow State Institute of Performing Arts, Oskooyi specialized in direction (1955) and art criticism (1990).
WParsa Pirouzfar, is an Iranian actor, theatre director, acting instructor, painter, playwright and translator.
WAli Rafie is an Iranian theatre and cinema director and stage designer.
WHossein Rajabian is an Iranian filmmaker, writer and photographer who was imprisoned in 2015 on charges related to his filmmaking.
WPari Saberi is an Iranian drama and theatre director and Knight of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, awarded by French President Jacques Chirac.
WGhotbedin Sadeghi in Sanandaj, Iran is an Iranian theatre director, playwright, stage and film actor, and arts instructor. He is also known as a prominent scholar of Iranian arts and culture. Sadeghi established Honar Theater Group in early 80's which is referred to as one of the most serious and artistic theater groups in Iran. His theatrical productions's fame is beholden to Mostafa Abdollahi and Michael Shahrestani who played the leading roles in his plays.
WHamid Samandarian Persian: حمید سمندریان; May 6, 1931 – July 12, 2012) was an Iranian film and theater director and translator. He staged numerous dramas during his lifetime, including No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and Marriage of Mr. Mississippi by Friedrich Durrenmatt.
WAzade Shahmiri is an Iranian theatre director and playwright who was born in Tehran, Iran. Shahmiri also works as a journalist, researcher and performer. She is a lecturer at Soore University.
WReza Shirmarz, is a Greece-based published and awarded playwright, translator, researcher, theatre director and essayist with more than 30 books both written and translated by him, collaborating with major publishing companies, theaters, drama schools, radio channels, journals, etc. in Iran. Reza Shirmarz was elected as a member of the board of directors of Iran's Playwrights Guild for 3 ongoing years. He has been a professional member of bodies such as Iran's Playwrights Guild, Pen America and Dramatists Guild of America. He also is a language specialist and a full member of Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) in London.
WShiva Makinian Is an Iranian theater director and actress in film and theater.
WSusan Taslimi is an Iranian actress, film director, theatre director, and screenwriter. She emigrated from Iran in 1987, now living and working in Sweden.
WNegin Mirhasani Vahed is an Iranian artist manager, producer and costume designer and the first female theater producer in Iran. She has also been responsible for the costume design of a variety of plays and television series.