Emruz Festival in collaboration with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Present
Theater Director and Emruz Co-Curator Shadi Ghaheri will be in conversation with Tehran-based Playwright Jaber Ramezani, Sara Bigdeli Shamlou, Afsoon Pajoufar, Reza Behjat, Shima Mirhamidi on Collaboration in Design.
Language: Farsi Duration: 60-90 mins Time: 12PM EST , 5:00 GMT 8:30 PM Tehran
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Jaber Ramezani Jaber Ramezani is a playwright, director and film maker based in Tehran, Iran. He has a BA in Dramatic Literature from Sooreh University, Tehran and is currently studying an MA in Film Directing at Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran.
His directorial debut ‘A New Game’ was selected for the International University Puppetry Festival. He has continued to produce work at home and abroad since. Other credits include; ‘Edward Normal Hands’ (Iran), ‘Swim Team’ (Skena Up, Kosovo, ITSelf, Poland, and Romatheater festival) and “Slow Sound of Snow” (Iranshahr, Tehran).
As a playwright Jaber’s work has been performed at the Fajr International Festival, the 14th & 15th International University Theatre Festivals and at Tajrobeh Theatre Festival. His awards include the ‘Lucky Euro Special Award’ for ‘Swim Team’ (Poland), ‘Best Director’ (15th International University Theatre Festival, Iran) and “best director” (Roma theatre festival Italy)
Afsoon Pajoufar is an NYC based freelance designer of stage and environment for play, opera, and live performance. Arriving at set design from a background in fine arts and film. She earned her MFA in Set Design at Boston University. Her designs have been seen at Harvard TDM, New Repertory Theatre, Kitchen Theatre, Gloucester Stage, Actor’s Shakespeare Company, Corkscrew, and Prelude Festival. As an Assistant Designer, Afsoon assisted on the recent Broadway production of West Side Story. Her design for "Cabaret" was chosen for the 2019 American Exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. Afsoon moved to the United States from Tehran, Iran. www.afsoonpajoufar.com
Sara Bigdeli Shamlou
“ Born in Tehran, 1991, the now Paris- based Vocalist/ Lyricist/ Composer, "Sara Bigdeli Shamloo" (aka SarrSew) is one-half of the duo "9T Antiope". Since 2014, they've had releases on multiple labels such as "PTP (Purple Tape Pedigree)", "Eilean Rec.", "Hallow Ground", "Zabte Sote/Opal Tapes", "Flaming Pines", "Unperceived Records" and an upcoming project on "American Dreams".
Initially starting music as a classical violin player, she became the vocalist of trio "Migrain Sq." alongside "Nima Aghiani" -the other half of 9T Antiope- and "Pouya Pour-Amin", back in 2011.
A second duo she has recently created with Nima Aghiani in 2020, is “Taraamoon” which focuses more on alternative electronic music with lyrics in Farsi.
As "SarrSew", other than her solo works, throughout the years she'd produced a number of creations for theatre and film; also active as a performer, she acts and occasionally illustrates. As a result of her -abandoned- studies of Theatre Directing at "Tehran University" -also/perhaps- her music is a melange of storytelling, dramatic lyrics and vocals woven together with electronics and acoustic instruments.
As of 2018, she's been producing a multimedia project, an Album/Monologue/Performance "Loss in The Living Room: An Homage To Death". “
REZA BEHJAT (Lighting Design) was born and raised in Iran where he worked with some of the prominent directors for several years. In 2014, he moved to New York City to pursue his MFA in Lighting Design at New York University where he was offered a full-ride for three years. Reza's works have been shown on Off-Broadway and regional theaters across the United States such as The Public Theater, Art New York Theaters, Naatco, Waterwell, The Guthrie Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, Longwarf Theater, Geva Theater Center, Baltimore Center Stage and etc. Currently, Reza resides in Brooklyn.
SHMA MIRHAMIDI is a Tehran-based Costume Designer
شیما میر حمیدی متولد سال 1363، طراح لباس، ساکن تهران. فارغ التحصیل رشته طراحی صحنه در سال 1386. او از سال 82 فعالیت حرفه ای خود را آغاز کرد و در سال های 88 و 96 به عنوان بهترین طراح لباس در جشنواره بین المللی فجر انتخاب شد. او همچنین توانسته به عنوان طراح صحنه دو بار برنده جایزه بهترین طراح صحنه سال شود. در سال های اخیر با راه اندازی استودیو زیرزمین تلاش میکند تا فرصت کار در پروژه های حرفه ای را برای کار آموزان به وجود بیاورد.