Naghmeh Samini

Naghmeh Samini (PhD), playwright, scriptwriter, and lecturer in Dramatic Arts, was born in Iran and received her BA in Drama and MA in Cinema from the University of Tehran. She did her PhD in Art Studies at the University of Tarbiat Modarres in Tehran with a thesis focused on Drama and Mythology. She Used to be the Professor of University of Tehran for 15 years and she has been an affiliate professor in University of Washington since 2019.

More than twenty of her plays have been staged in Iran, France, India, Canada, the United States and other countries. These include Sleeping in an Empty Cup, Sky Horses Rain Ashes, The Homeand The forgotten history of Mastaneh. Her screenplays, including Main Line and Heiran and 3 women won awards. She is the script writer of one of the most popular Iranian series: Shahrzad. Her plays are experimental in structure and handle a variety of topical subjects at personal and sociopolitical levels. Inspired by One Thousand and One Night, she uses magic realism and non-linear narratives in her plays. She also the author of several semi-fictional and theoretical books, such as Wars and Bodies, The theatre of Mythology and I am Sindbad You are traveler.