Borna Barzin

Borna Barzin

Borna Barzin is an Iranian-American director, playwright, and arts administrator based in Brooklyn. He has made work with New York Theatre Workshop, Atlantic Theater Company, National Queer Theater, Atlantic Acting School, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and Sibiu International Theater Festival in Romania. He completed residencies and fellowships with Roundabout, Mercury Store, Colt Coeur, and NYTW. His play "HELL IS...
Borna Barzin is an Iranian-American director, playwright, and arts administrator based in Brooklyn. He has made work with New York Theatre Workshop, Atlantic Theater Company, National Queer Theater, Atlantic Acting School, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and Sibiu International Theater Festival in Romania. He completed residencies and fellowships with Roundabout, Mercury Store, Colt Coeur, and NYTW. His play "HELL IS" was selected as a part of Egg & Spoon Theater's Incubate NYC Program. He is the current Artistic Programs Associate at Ma-Yi Theater Company.

Plays

  • Like This by Borna Barzin
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: family drama, immigrant story + 7 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, farce, melodrama, opera, verse
    Keyword: family drama, immigrant story, Iranian-American, romance, slapstick, poetry, ritual, comic melodrama, opera
    Inspired by the Rumi poem of the same name, “Like This” follows a young man who brings his boyfriend to (what he thought would be) his empty childhood home in Half Moon Bay, California. Like This is a heartfelt melodrama written in verse that examines an immigrant family grappling to understand love and ritual.
  • HELL IS by Borna Barzin
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: queer characters, satire + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fantasy, parody/spoof, political, verse
    Keyword: queer characters, satire, reality tv, drag queens, Commodification
    Three gays are trapped in Hell with no escape. Libra, the queen of Hell, gets dethroned by the human embodiment of neo-liberal-late-capitalism aka your favorite television host/Democratic Presidential Candidate. Their only hope? To compete on the newest franchise of your favorite reality competition TV show set in Hell that grants eternal life to the winner (duh). HELL IS explores themes of love, death, and the...
    Three gays are trapped in Hell with no escape. Libra, the queen of Hell, gets dethroned by the human embodiment of neo-liberal-late-capitalism aka your favorite television host/Democratic Presidential Candidate. Their only hope? To compete on the newest franchise of your favorite reality competition TV show set in Hell that grants eternal life to the winner (duh). HELL IS explores themes of love, death, and the commodification of queer culture.