Amir Gudarzi

Amir Gudarzi is a writer born in Tehran, Iran, in 1986. He graduated at the only school for theatre the country had at that time. Due to censorship his plays were only shown in private circles. And since 2009, Gudarzi has lived in involuntary exile in Vienna, Austria. In 2017, he won the exil-DramatikerInnenpreis for his play Between Us and Them Lies…. In 2018, his play Arash, the Returnee premiered under the title Arash//Heimkehrer in Vienna and his play The Knowledge Tree was shown in Jerusalem. In 2019, his play The Assassin’s Castle was invited to the Berlin Stückemarkt, and in 2020 the play Jelly Man – The Future in between my Fingers premiered in Vienna. In 2022 his play Wonderwomb won the Kleist Prize for playwriting.

Amir Gudarzi’s Who Cut the Cake was performed in the rehearsal room of the Royal Court during the first edition of the Royal Court’s digitally streamed Living Newspaper: A Counter Narrative (2020).

Gudarzi discussed his life and work with Omar Elerian in S6 Ep1 of Playwright’s Podcast.