Parvaneh Soltani is an Iranian playwright, theatre director and actress who lives in London.
Background
Parvaneh's father was an activist and her mother a poet and homemaker. She grew up in a poetry and political household that adored the leftwing of Iran and their ideologies and poetry. Through her father's acceptance of Left wing ideologies came an acceptance of a form of liberal feminism. Her father encouraged his daughters to “be a free woman”. She studied BA in theatre at Dramatic University in Tehran. Life and work in the West Parvaneh left Iran in 1985 because of the political situation. It was about this time that the Iranian Revolution occurred. As an effect of the political restructuring after the revolution, she came into London and began studying Media. Eventually, she went in London College of Printing to study MA in Film. In London to find her voice, she contribute in radio and magazines in Europe. In 1990 she began to work with Iraj Janati Attaie, playwright and a theatre director in an epic story called another Roastam another Sfandiyar with Behrooz Vosooghi the famous Iranian Co- Star. They have performed that play in numerous countries, including England, most European Cities, Canada and the United States. In 2000, she formed Nina Theatre Company in London. Since then she wrote, directed and performed many successful plays. Those plays have been performed in London, Canada, and toured to several cities in Europe. Also in 2000 she joined the Artists in Exile company in London. The first mature play she adapted, performed and directed by herself was A Woman Alone, and then she wrote the successful play based on many true stories in political prisoners in Iran after revolution. Her work refers to the social, cultural and religious codes of Islamic society and the complexity of certain oppositions, such as man and woman. The plight of Iranian women is the subject usually she focussed on. She has also made more narrative one woman show in theatre, such as her work, Forugh Farokhzad in the garden of memories. The work of Parvaneh addresses the social, political and psychological dimensions of women's experience in contemporary societies. Although Parvaneh actively resists stereotypical representations of Islam, her artistic objectives are not explicitly polemical. Rather, her work recognizes the complex intellectual and religious forces shaping the identity of Muslim women throughout the world. She also directed and acted short film, such as Stoning, A passion for life, Land legs.... While she lives in London, she addresses a global audience with her work like Fear of Separation was symbolic of her personal grief, anxiety and the pain of those women who scared of separation. As time progressed and the Islamic regime of Iran became more intrusive and oppressive, her work became more boldly political and subversively critical against it. Like (Once upon a time in my country Iran, and Mr, Bin Laden Journeys and Women. She seeks to, according to an article in New Left Review and Iran Bulitan Journal, women are a lost link in Iranian cinema. Her current theatre work continues to express the philosophical as well as complex levels of intellectual abstraction. Parvaneh was profiled her website Art and Heart expression in March 2005. In July 2009 she created her dance theatre Nada's Story in protest of the 2009 Iranian presidential election. Film and theater experience
2014 Miss Butterfly written and Directed for puppet show
