Kambiz Hosseini is an Iranian playwright and TV host working for Voice of America

Voice of America

Voice of America is the official external broadcast institution of the United States federal government. It is one of five civilian U.S. international broadcasters working under the umbrella of the Broadcasting Board of Governors . VOA provides a wide range of programming for broadcast on radio...

. He was born in Rasht

Rasht

Rasht is a city in and the capital of Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 551,161, in 159,983 families.Rasht is the largest city on Iran's Caspian Sea coast. It is a major trade center between Caucasia, Russia and Iran using the port of Bandar-e Anzali...

, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

 in 1975 and moved to the US in 2000. Hosseini was the host of popular radio show called Islamic Revolution Blossoms when he was 10 years old. Since then he has written and directed many stage plays, radio and TV shows. He is currently working as the writer and host of a satirical show on Voice of America called Parazit

Parazit

Parazit is a weekly half-hour Persian-language satirical television show broadcast on Voice of America's Persian service. The show pokes fun at Iranian politics and culture. Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi, Iranian expatriates living in Washington, DC, started the show as a 10-minute segment in...

. He studied dramatic literature and acting both in Iran and the US.

External links

• Kambiz Hosseini on the IMBD
• Photos of Hosseini on set