Ezzat Goushegir: Playwright in Chicago, Illinois.

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 four books and her plays have been produced by a variety of theater companies 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, England, France, Sweden, Germany, and Canada. Her latest play My Name is Inanna had two productions in China in 2012 and several staged productions in the U.S. In 1990 she was a Fellow Writer in the Iowa City International Writing Program, in 1992 & 2012 contributed plays in the Conference of International Women’s Playwrights in Canada and Sweden. In 2007 she was a Writer-in-Residence at the University of Maryland, as well as being 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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