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3 Tall Persian Women by Anita Abdinezhad – Zoomlet

3 Tall Persian Women

By Anita Abdinezhad
Directed by Dalia Ashurina
A San Francisco Playhouse Zoomlet

Original air date: February 28, 2022

Featuring Anita Abdinezhad, Nicole Ansari and Nora Armani

Three generations of marvelous Iranian women come together for the holidays. They try to deal with Facebook hackers, boy issues, and worst of all, each other’s differing opinions. Who will survive the night?

PLAYWRIGHT

Anita Abdinezhad
Anita is an actor/writer based in NYC. In March, she will begin rehearsals for the Broadway production of POTUS, or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive directed by Susan Stroman. As a writer, her latest TV pilot, Fareeda’s Phantasias, was a semifinalist at this past year’s Sundance Episodic Lab. In May, Anita will graduate from Columbia’s MFA Acting program. More at anitaabdinezhad.com @awni.joon.  (Biography courtesy of Anita Abdinezhad)

DIRECTOR

Dalia Ashurina
Dalia Ashurina is a media and theatre director who focuses her work on the highest intersection of both stark honesty and explosive theatricality. She aims to create theatrical experiences that you can see, hear, feel, and taste, all while lifting the voices of women and those of Middle Eastern descent. She currently serves as the Resident Director of Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. Her most recent new play development work has been seen at Dixon Place and Access Theatre in NYC and heard on the Parsnip Ship Radio Theatre Podcast.  She is an alumnus of the Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship in Directing at Arena Stage and before that, assisted at Center Theatre Group and Cornerstone Theatre. University of California, Irvine. She is a proud member of SDC and an Artistic Producer at In the Margin Theatre Company. @your_gal_dal (Biography courtesy of Dalia Ashurina)

ACTORS

Nicole Ansari
Broadway: Rock N’ Roll; Off Broadway: 7 minutes (Waterwell for here Arts); Tartuffe (Molière in the Park); Daybreak (Theatre row); I am Antigone (Theatre for a New City) ; Shakespeare’s sister (Fiaf; La Mama and French tour); Regional: She/her (also Co- writer and director at PS21 Chatam); Sinners (New rep at BU and the Playground Theatre, London); Island of Slaves (Shakespeare and Company, MA). Europe: Rock N’ Roll (West end and Royal Court Theatre); Romy, me…(co- writer), Irma la douce, Much ado about nothing, Cyrano de Bergerac (Public Theatre Vienna); Alma (Intl Theatre Festival Vienna); La ville parjure ou le reveill des Erinyes (Thèâtre du Soleil, Paris); Two Years Repertory at the Theater am Neumarkt, Zuerich; Film: Land of Dreams; Son of the South; Lawrence after Arabia; Remember me; Soderbergh’s Side effects. TV: FBI; Hit and run; The Blacklist; The mysteries of Laura; Bar Karma; Deadwood and many European Films and TV. Nicole won a best director British Web award for the Web series Messy and an ensemble acting award from AFI for Son of the South. www.nicoleansari.com (Biography courtesy of Nicole Ansari)

Nora Armani
Nora Armani is an award-winning multilingual actor/filmmaker. International stage and screen credits include Terrorism at the LenFest Center NYC, Piradello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author Off-Broadway, Back on the Couch with Nora Armani, Mercedes, The King and I, and iMigrant Woman. Recent TV includes Black List: Redemption (NBC), Casualty (BBC), Golden Boy (CBS), The Friends (Egypt TV). As a filmmaker she has screened at Cannes, Rotterdam, Paris, London, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Kerala, Monaco, Shanghai, Yerevan, New York, and more. Nora is the Founding Artistic Director of SR Socially Relevant Film Festival NY since 2013. She holds a MA Degree in Theatre from Hunter College CUNY, a Masters Degree in Sociology from LSE, University of London, and teaches theatre and media internationally. Member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. Full credits and additional info may be found on website and IMDb. Nora is happy to be taking part in this production. (Biography courtesy of Nora Armani)