TEHRAN – The young Iranian writer/director Azadeh Shahmiri is among the jury members of the Zurich Theater Spectacle, a Swiss festival focusing on modern performing arts and theatrical presentations, which will be held from August 16 to September 2.
Omar Abu Saada from Syria, Max-Philipp Aschenbrenner and Mona De Weerdt from Switzerland, and Nunu Kong from China are other members of the jury.
Shahmiri, 30, has worked as an art critic and journalist in Tehran. She has written and staged “The Distance Between the Stars”, “Murder at the Writing Room” and several other plays. She has also written and translated several books.
The Zürich Theatre Spectacle is held annually each summer in Switzerland. The event began on a much smaller scale as an annual international meeting of independent theater groups before emerging as a much larger cultural event in the country.
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