Barzin Akhavan

AEA Member
Barzin Akhavan

(he/him/his)

Playwright and Performer, Behfarmaheen (If You Please)

Five seasons at OSF: Oklahoma!, Othello, Pericles, The Happiest Song Plays Last, The Tempest, Water by the Spoonful, Lear, Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet, and Troilus and Cressida. Broadway: Network (Belasco), The Kite Runner (Helen Hayes). Off-Broadway: Macbeth (Classic Stage Company); Fuente Ovejuna (TFNA); Hamlet (Waterwell); Richard II (The Public/WNYC). International tour: Aftermath (France, Amsterdam, Melbourne). Other theatres: Selling Kabul, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet (Seattle Rep); The Kite Runner(World Premiere; San Jose Stage and Arizona Theatre Company); A Thousand Splendid Suns (World Premiere; ACT SF and Theatre Calgary); Vestibular Sense (World Premiere, Mixed Blood); The Messenger(World Premiere; Pioneer Theatre Co); Witch (Huntington); Shakespeare in Love (Cincinnati Playhouse and Baltimore Center Stage); Pericles (The Guthrie and Folger); Mary Zimmerman’s Arabian Nights (Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, Lookingglass); Inana, Lidless (CATF); Disgraced (Cincinnati Playhouse); Invisible Hand (Marin Theatre Co.); The Persian Quarter (Merrimack Rep); The Poetry of Pizza (Virginia Stage Co.); The Tempest, The Glass Menagerie (Idaho Rep); Four seasons with the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival; one season with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. TV: Chicago Med, The Blacklist, Girls5Eva, Smash, Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Film: Ezra, Funny Face, Joyful, The Jew of Malta, Anniversary. Education: University of Washington PATP.