Ezzat Goushegir, received her M.F.A from the Theater Department of the University of Iowa, is a playwright, author and film critic. She has published six books (in Farsi), including two collections of short stories “The Woman, the Room, and Love”- “… And suddenly the leopard cried: WOMAN”, a collection of two plays “Metamorphosis and Maryam’s Pregnancy”, and “Migration in the sun”, a book of poetry. Three of her plays (In English) were anthologized in Witness and Crawdad in 2006. She began her career in theatre as a playwright since 1976 when her play “Beginning of Bloom” was produced at Iranian National Television, followed by the “Middle East Odyssey” at Culture and Art Hall in Tehran.Immigrating to the U.S. she wrote both in English and Farsi, where she has been writing both in English and Farsi and her plays have been produced by a variety of theater companies in the U.S., Europe, China and the Philippines including “Maryam’s pregnancy”, which won a Richard Maibaum award and “Behind the curtains”, recipient at a Norman Felton award. Among her many activities, she is a regular contributor to literary journals, and her writing has appeared in publications in Iran, Europe, and Canada. She was a Fellow Writer in the Iowa City International Writing Program, contributed in the Conference of International Women’s Playwrights, was a Writer-in- Residence at the University of Maryland, also has been a co-director and dramaturge of a reading series at New Federal Theatre in New York.
She is the member of “The Dramatists Guild of America” and “The Association of Writers and Writing Program”.
Currently she teaches at (SNL)DePaul University in Chicago.
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Awards
2007 Jiménez-Porter Writer-in-Residence, University of Maryland
1991 Richard Maibaum Award, for MARYAM’S PREGNANCY
1991 Norman Felton Award, for BEHIND THE CURTAINS
1990 Fellow Writer, International Writing Program The University of Iowa