Mehrnaz Tiv

Mehrnaz (she/they) is an Iranian American playwright and artist raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their work has been developed with City Theatre, Asia Society, Noor Theatre, the Tank, the Women’s Theater Festival, Permafrost Theater Collective, Full Circle Theater Collaborative, and Breaking and Entering Theatre Collaborative. She is currently a member of the SWANA Writer’s Co-op at New York Theatre Workshop and TAG at the Tank.

BFA: New York University Tisch School of the Arts’ Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing. Member of the Dramatists Guild.

Mehrnaz (she/they) is an Iranian American playwright and artist raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their work has been developed with City Theatre, Asia Society, Noor Theatre, the Tank, the Women’s Theater Festival, Permafrost Theater Collective, Full Circle Theater Collaborative, and Breaking and Entering Theatre Collaborative. She is currently a member of the SWANA Writer’s Co-op at New York Theatre Workshop and TAG at the Tank.

BFA: New York University Tisch School of the Arts’ Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing. Member of the Dramatists Guild.

Scripts

Squishy Emotional Insides

by Mehrnaz Tiv

1
Cast Size
6—8
Genre
comedy

It’s 2018 in Western Pennsylvania, home of the Ruby Valley High School Jaguars Marching Band. The seniors, victims of an elementary school shooting in 2006, prepare for their final Labor Day parade performance and navigate their next steps out of high school through their post-traumatized eyes. In this group dromedy, Clarinet, Flute, Percussion, Trumpet, and Trombone face teenage angst, sexual frustration, and...

It’s 2018 in Western Pennsylvania, home of the Ruby Valley High School Jaguars Marching Band. The seniors, victims of an elementary school shooting in 2006, prepare for their final Labor Day parade performance and navigate their next steps out of high school through their post-traumatized eyes. In this group dromedy, Clarinet, Flute, Percussion, Trumpet, and Trombone face teenage angst, sexual frustration, and the intricate stupidity of the high school marching band ecosystem.

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Nude Perfect

by Mehrnaz Tiv

2
Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy

Eve uses the latest AI powered software, Nude Perfect, to take the mathematically perfect nude photo.

Eve uses the latest AI powered software, Nude Perfect, to take the mathematically perfect nude photo.

Mr. Perfect isn't Persian

by Mehrnaz Tiv

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy

Two Iranians find each other through Tinder, but their clashing relationship with their identities drag them farther apart then pull them closer together.

Two Iranians find each other through Tinder, but their clashing relationship with their identities drag them farther apart then pull them closer together.

Italian Stallion

by Mehrnaz Tiv

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy

when little rich boy jeffrey tells busy brianna about her strange sleepwalking incident from the night
before, the two roommates argue about the true culprit to brianna's missing leftover Italian Stallion
sandwich.

when little rich boy jeffrey tells busy brianna about her strange sleepwalking incident from the night
before, the two roommates argue about the true culprit to brianna's missing leftover Italian Stallion
sandwich.