Torange Yeghiazarian is a playwright, director, and community-builder. In 1996, she founded Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to the Middle East and its global diaspora and served as its Executive Artistic Director for the next twenty-five years. Torange’s plays have been published in “New Iranian Plays,” “Middle Eastern American Theatre,” “Performing Iran,” “Salaam. Peace: An Anthology of Middle Eastern-American Drama,” among others. Torange has translated works by leading contemporary Iranian playwrights including, Naghmeh Samini, Mohammad Yaghoubee, and Reza Soroor; and adapted to the stage a short story by Iran’s modernist master, Sadegh Hedayat, poems by leading feminist poet, Simin Behbehani, and classical romance poetry (Layla & Majnun) by Nizami...
Torange Yeghiazarian is a playwright, director, and community-builder. In 1996, she founded Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to the Middle East and its global diaspora and served as its Executive Artistic Director for the next twenty-five years. Torange’s plays have been published in “New Iranian Plays,” “Middle Eastern American Theatre,” “Performing Iran,” “Salaam. Peace: An Anthology of Middle Eastern-American Drama,” among others. Torange has translated works by leading contemporary Iranian playwrights including, Naghmeh Samini, Mohammad Yaghoubee, and Reza Soroor; and adapted to the stage a short story by Iran’s modernist master, Sadegh Hedayat, poems by leading feminist poet, Simin Behbehani, and classical romance poetry (Layla & Majnun) by Nizami. Torange has directed, devised, and collaborated on numerous plays including original short plays for young audiences. Born in Iran and of Armenian heritage, Torange is a Fulbright Specialist and currently works as a freelance artist and consultant. TorangeYeghiazarian.com