Javaad Alipoor

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Javaad Alipoor (he/him) is a British-Iranian, writer, performer, and Artistic Director of The Javaad Alipoor Company. He wrote, co-directed, and performed in The Believers Are But Brothers as an international touring show, and wrote and performed in the TV adaptation for BBC Four. Its follow-up, Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls, co-created with Kirsty Housley, written for the stage and for its digital world tour, which included a run at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, won his second Fringe First Award. Together with Chris Thorpe he wrote and directed the tri-lingual theater production, Made of Mannheim, which had its world premiere with Nationaltheater Mannheim and Theaterhaus G7. His most recent work Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World opened to five-star reviews and sold out audiences at Battersea Arts Centre and HOME, Manchester. 

Javaad was Resident Associate Director at Sheffield Theatres from 2017-18 where he directed a new version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Prior to this, he was Associate Director at Bradford’s Theatre in the Mill from 2015 to 2017. His writing about politics and culture has been featured in The Guardian, The Independent, and The Stage. His plays have been published by Oberon and Nick Hern, and his poetry by Art in Usual Places.