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“Parsi is a wonderful writer.”—Time Out
“Beautifully crafted … layered, nuanced writing.”—Windy City Times

The Life You Gave Me, Boise Contemporary Theater (Brooke Burton Photography)

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Painting in Public

Al and Betty are both reeling from loss when they find each other, but can Betty continue to love Al even if he no longer looks like the man she knows and loves?

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MacDowell: Fellowship

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Atlanta Shakespeare CompanyMuse of Fire Playwriting Festival: Selected

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The Life You Gave Me

A son tries to save his mother. She has other ideas. So do two mysterious strangers who watch the play—and ask the son to tell the story again and again until he gets it right, whatever right might be.

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Boise Contemporary Theater: Premiere production

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Ashland New Plays Festival: Winner

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Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative, Crossroads Project: Winner

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Woodward/Newman Award: Finalist

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Relentless Award: Honorable mention

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O’Neill National Playwrights Conference: Semifinalist

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​Road Theatre CompanySummer Playwrights Festival: Selected

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Boise Contemporary Theater, BIPOC Playwrights Festival: Selected

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St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, Confluence New Play Festival: Selected

Remains and Returns: Ashland New Plays Festival

Remains and Returns

In 2018, as the Shirvani family talks about nothing and everything, two middle-aged brothers confront their elderly parents about impending realities. Thirty years earlier, the parents confront their teen sons about their own hopes for their children’s futures. Returning to 2018, Remains and Returns considers how we deny our pasts, and how our pasts endure.

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The Innkeepers

When four guests arrive at a remote rural inn for what appears to be a weekend getaway, the innkeeper, Arzu Amiri, reveals they are all bound together by a terrible event involving her son 17 years earlier. The characters enact and re-enact their shifting versions of what happened until Arzu arrives at her own truth and her own devastating decision.

Woodward/Newman Award: Finalist

 

Amphibian Stage, SparkFest: Finalist

 

Broad Horizons Theatre Company, New Plays Festival: Finalist

 

Queens Theatre: Virtual staged reading

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Bay Area Playwrights Festival: Semifinalist

 

O’Neill National Playwrights Conference: Semifinalist

 

Landing Theatre Company, New American Voices Playwriting Festival: Semifinalist

Through the Elevated Line: Silk Road Rising

Through the Elevated Line

Having fled Iran where he was imprisoned for being a gay man, a damaged Razi arrives at his sister’s Chicago doorstep only to disrupt the life she and her American husband have built together. With echoes of A Streetcar Named Desire, Through the Elevated Line probes the boundaries between family, loss, prejudice, and desire.

 

Silk Road Rising: Premiere production


Jeff Awards: Best New Work nominee
 

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Staged reading

Take This World: The New Group

Take This World

Roya has made a name as a writer by chronicling her experience raising her severely impaired son, Nicholas. Now she refuses to acknowledge that, as an adult, the increasingly violent Nicholas may be beyond her—or perhaps anyone's—control.

Our Mother's Meal: Playwrights Foundation

Our Mother’s Meal

Throughout one long day, while an Iranian-American mother tirelessly cooks and cooks, her three children traipse back to the family home with their very American attitudes, expectations, and conflicts. As the day progresses, she must reckon with an escalating crisis that threatens the foundation of their lives.

Those Ills We Have: Golden Thread Productions

Those Ills We Have

Farid is in pain, and has been for six years. Now that everything is on the line, can Diego, the pain management guru, help Farid identify the root cause of his pain? Is it his Iranian family’s disappointment in his life choices? Is it the pressures of his interracial marriage? Or is it all just in his head?

 

Golden Thread Productions: Staged reading

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