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 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. 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". 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.

The revival of her play No Man's Land was performed in German in March 2009 in (Karlsruhe) within the framework of the "Cultural Perspectives of Women festival 09".
Her latest play "One file, two murders" about the political murder of the couple Forouhar had its premiere in October 2009.

Staging (theatre director)

• Marjan, Mani and a few small problems, 1996
• The Last Game, 1997
• 99: No Man's Land, 1998
• 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
  The Blind Owl
  The Blind Owl is Sadegh Hedayat's most enduring work of prose and a major literary work of 20th century Iran. Written in Persian, it tells the story of an unnamed pen case painter, the narrator, who sees in his macabre, feverish nightmares that "the presence of death annihilates all that is...
  
   ( 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

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

Awards

• 2005:Persian "World Academy of Art, Literature and Media"Budapest
  Budapest
  Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
  
  :Best Directorin the Performing Arts category and

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