Akbar Alizad


Ali Akbar Alizad is a theater director in Iran. He was most acclaimed for his performance of Waiting for Godot
Alizad has been a member of Aein theater group and Leev theater group for 10 years, and in 2006 he began to found his theatrical group named 84theater.

Professional history

Lecturer in Cinema &Theater College, University of Art teaching in this college, drama analysis, playwriting, and dramatic principles.
He engaged in theater from 1991; from that time his central interest focused on directing, but he had many experiences at the other theatrical work such as writing and acting. Also he had been Member of Aeein Theater Group from 1991 to 2004 and Member of Leev Theater Group from 2004.
From the late of 2006 he had begun to found 84Theater for experiencing new areas. In 2012 TDR, The Drama Review, has published an essay about Iranian new theater and Beckett/Pinter, by Alizad. In 2009 He met to Noel Greig in Tehran for holding a workshop; Alizad translated his book, Playwriting: a practical Guide, into Persian.

Theater works 2005-2009