Artist Bio

Hamid Dehghani (Director) is a director, playwright and actor. Born and raised in Iran, he considers Buraki-ye Olya, a village in the south of Iran, his hometown. Dehghani has received several awards as a director, playwright and actor from international festivals in Iran. His directing highlights in Iran include two original scripts, From the Environs of Milad and Sohrab’s Transgression; Nathan and Tabileth by Barry Bermange; and Leila by Morteza Hossein Zadeh (co-director). Dehghani graduated from Tehran University of Art in Iran with a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Directing and worked professionally in Tehran’s theater scene for over 10 years before moving to the United States in 2018 to continue his education.

Since then, Dehghani directed A Moment of Silence by Mohammad Yaghoubi; Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph at Northwestern University; and Baba by Denmo Ibrahim at Amphibian Stage. He also had the opportunity to work as an assistant director at the Metropolitan Opera, Court Theatre, and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. During the 2020 pandemic when all theaters were closed, he co-founded Grass Studio Theatre and performed three collectively devised pieces – Picnic, Story in a Box, and Reportage of a Room – at various outdoor locations in Chicago. Dehghani is the Artistic Fellow at Northlight Theatre and holds an MFA in Directing from Northwestern University.