Shadi Ghaheri is a Theatre, Opera, and Film director, choreographer and writer from Iran based in NYC. She has directed Tosca (Heartbeat Opera), Selling Kabul (Signature Theatre), Conduct of Life (SUNY Purchase), Threshold of Brightness (BMP), Memorial (NYU Tisch), Banned, (Broadway Bound), Glimpse (Rattlestick Theatre), Fen (Columbia University), Untitled (Rattlestick Theatre), Lucretia (HERE), Death of Yazdgerd, Titus Andronicus (Yale School of Drama), The Slow Sound of Snow (Yale Cabaret). She co-curated Yale Summer Cabaret season as co-artistic director, plus directing Trojan Women, and Lear. She co-founded/co-curated Emruz Festival, and Peydah Theatre Company. Shadi is a graduate of Yale School of Drama, and a 2016 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, the 2018 directing fellow at Rattlestick Theatre and the winner of Robert L.B. Tobin Showcase 2019. Shadi is looking forward to directing the world premier of Extinctionist at HeartBeat Opera in spring 2024 Shadighaheri.com
Shadi Ghaheri
Shadi Ghaheri is a Theatre, Opera, and Film director, choreographer and writer from Iran based in NYC. She has directed Tosca (Heartbeat Opera), Selling Kabul (Signature Theatre), Conduct of Life (SUNY Purchase), Threshold of Brightness (BMP), Memorial (NYU Tisch), Banned, (Broadway Bound), Glimpse (Rattlestick Theatre), Fen (Columbia University), Untitled (Rattlestick Theatre), Lucretia (HERE), Death of Yazdgerd, Titus Andronicus (Yale School of Drama), The Slow Sound of Snow (Yale Cabaret). She co-curated Yale Summer Cabaret season as co-artistic director, plus directing Trojan Women, and Lear. She co-founded/co-curated Emruz Festival, and Peydah Theatre Company. Shadi is a graduate of Yale School of Drama, and a 2016 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, the 2018 directing fellow at Rattlestick Theatre and the winner of Robert L.B. Tobin Showcase 2019. Shadi is looking forward to directing the world premier of Extinctionist at HeartBeat Opera in spring 2024 Shadighaheri.com