Akbar Alizad


Ali Akbar Alizad is an Iranian theater director, known mostly for his performance of Waiting for Godot. Alizad has been a member of the Aein Theater Group and the Leev Theater Group for 10 years, and in 2006 he founded his theatrical group named 84theater.

Career

Alizad is a lecturer at the Cinema & Theater College, University of Art since 2004, teaching drama analysis, playwriting, and dramatic principles.
He was also a member of the Aeein Theater Group from 1991 to 2004 and a member of the Leev Theater Group from 2004. In 2009, he met Noel Greig in Tehran to hold a workshop where Alizad translated his book; Playwriting: A Practical Guide, into Persian.

Performances 2005–2009

  • Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Tehran, Molavi Hall
  • Two Latin American plays, Tehran, Department of Cinema & Theater
  • Oleanna by David Mamet, Tehran, City Theater
  • Anniversary Celebratory and Swan Song by Chekhov, Tehran, Department of Cinema & Theater
  • Ohio Impromptu, Footfalls, Come and Go, Catastrophe, and Rough for Theater 1 by Samuel Beckett
  • All That Falls by Samuel Beckett, Artist home, Tehran, September 2008
  • Police by Slawomir Merozek, first premier: May 2009
  • Catastrophe & Come and Go by Samuel Beckett, Romania, 2009
  • What Where / Mountain Language Beckett/Pinter,
  • Magic Mountain, written and devised by Ali Akbar Alizad, a collaboration between 84theater and 20 Stories High from Liverpool, performed in Manchester, UK, as a part of Contacting the World Festival
  • Catastrophe and Come and Go by Samuel Beckett, UK, Manchester, 2010
  • Endless Monologue, a documentary performance based on the verbatim technique. July 2011, East Gallery, Tehran
  • Play by Samuel Beckett, Arasbaran Art Center, Tehran, November and September 2011.
  • Krapp's Last Tape, by Samuel Beckett, Molavi Hall, 2012
  • Tango, by Slawomir Merozek,
  • The House of Bernarda Alba by Lorca, Tehran, 2014
  • Act Without Words I & II by Samuel Beckett, Tehran, Moje No hall, 2014
  • Oleanna by David Mamet, Tehran, Samandarian hall, 2015
  • Mountain Language/Faith in Ourselves by Harold Pinter/Martin Crimp, Tehran, Molavi Hall, 2016
  • Fragments by Samuel Beckett, Tehran, City Theater
  • The Maids by Jean Genet, Tehran, Molavi Hall,
  • Alice in Tehran, written and directed by Ali Akbar Alizad