Ezzat Goushegir is a bilingual playwright, poet, diarist, and fiction writer, whose works have been staged and published internationally, including thirteen books in Farsi. “Beginning of Bloom” was her first play presented on Iranian National Television. Her plays in English have been translated into French, Arabic and Mandarin, produced by theater companies in the U.S., Europe, China, the Philippines, and received awards, including the Richard Maibaum, Finalist in the Jane Chambers Play Writing Award Competition and the Norman Felton awards. Her play “My Name is Inanna” was premiered in China in 2012 and staged by Red Tape Theatre in Chicago in 2021. She has been writing both in English and Farsi since she immigrated to the U.S. Among her many activities, she was a Fellow Writer in the Iowa City International Writing Program, a Writer-in-Residence at the University of Maryland, a co-director and dramaturge of a reading series at New Federal Theatre in New York. She teaches part time at DePaul University in Chicago.

Selected Plays: MY NAME IS INANNA

THE BRIDE OF ACACIAS

I’M NOT AN EXCEPTIONALIST!

MARYAM’S PREGNANCY

MAD AS THE BLOOD SOUND

BEHIND THE CURTAINS

ANOTHER PHAEDRA IN THE DESERT