Niloofar Beyzaie

Niloofar Beyzaie is an Iranian dramatist.

Life

Niloofar Beyzaie is the daughter of the theater and film director Bahram Beyzaie (Bahram Beyzai) and Monir Azam Raminfar who comes from a family of artists. In 1985 she had to leave Iran for political reasons and studied German Literature, Theater, Film and Television Studies and Education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. After finishing her academic studies she founded 1994 the theater group "Daritsche". Since then she is leading this group as Director, Play writer, and light and costume designer.

Work

Central themes of her theater work are "woman", "the suffering of individuals among the crowd" and "being a stranger either in the own or in the foreign society". She also puts emphasis on the sociopolitical context of the theater in its contemporary issues. In addition to her theatrical work she writes articles about the political and social situation, particularly the situation of women in Iran. She advocates for women's rights^[1] and for the rights of gays and lesbians in Iran and is involved in the Iranian art and cultural scene in exile for the rights of religious minorities in Iran, in particular the Bahais.^[2] In 2005, she was awarded the Persian "World Academy of Art, Literature and Media" in Budapest as the best theatre director in exile in category "the Performing Arts".^[3] In the same year her play Daughters of the Sun (Come,dance with me) was performed in Zurich by Maralam Theater under direction of Peter Braschler. ^[4] The revival of her play No Man's Land ^[5] was performed in German in March 2009 in Karlsruhe ^[6] within the framework of the "Cultural Perspectives of Women festival 09".^[7] Her latest play "Face to Face at the Threshold of the Cold Season" is about two very important women of the Iranian history "Tahirih Qurratu'l- ayn and Forough Farokhzad" had its premiere in October 2011 ^[8]

Staging (theatre director)

• Marjan, Mani and a few small problems, 1996
• The Last Game, 1997
• No Man's Land, 1998–99
• A knife in the back (text: Kaveh Esmaili), 1999–2000
• The blue dreams of the gray women, 2000–2001
• Three Opinions on a death (based on a text by: Mina Assadi), 2001–2002
• The Blind Owl (based on a text by: Sadegh Hedayat), 2004–2005
• The blind owl (bilingual, along with Tom Peifer), 2005
• foreign as you and I (based on a text by Farhang Kassraei and Maria Piniella), 2006–2007
• The Voice of Silence, 2007–2008
• The blind owl (revival), 2008
• No Man's Land (revival), 2009
• One file, two murders, 2009–2010
• Diaries of newspapers or How the revolution ate its grandchildren (Play reading) 2011
• Face to Face at the Threshold of the Cold Season, 2011-2012

Plays (playwright)

• Banu in the mirror city (performed in the same year under direction of Mohsen Hosseini in Frankfurt am Main), 1994
• Marjan, Mani and a few small problems, 1995
• The last game, 1996
• No Man's Land, 1997
• The blue dreams of the gray women, 2000
• Come dance with me (Daughters of the Sun), 2005
• The Voice of Silence, 2006
• One file, two murders, 2009
• Diaries of newspapers or How the revolution ate its grandchildren (Play reading) 2011
• Face to Face at the Threshold of the Cold Season, 2011

Awards

• 2005:Persian "World Academy of Art, Literature and Media"Budapest:Best Director in the Performing Arts category^[9] and ^[10]

References

1. article women rights
2. we are ashamed
3. iranian world academie Award best director
4. Maralam come, dance with me
5. 10th Cultural Perspectives of Women Festival 2009 No man's land
6. staatstheatre No man's land
7. cultural festival tausend and one iran women
9. Award
10. best stage director

External links

• The blind owl
• Critics in German1
• Critics in German2
• The Voice of Silence by Diyalog Festival Berlin
• Critics in German3
• _19._Januar_2007 Interview Germany SWR
• No man's land
• Member of artists without frontiers
• the blind owl by harbourfront centre

See also

List of famous Persian women