Golshan Ahmad Hashemi is a cultural scholar, a freelance artist in various collectives and consultant for critical education on racism and antisemitism in cultural work. As a dramaturge and author, she works with and for a variety of projects. With Banafshe Hourmazdi, she has been (dis)disrupting existing relations of domination with her performances since 2016. Banafshe Hourmazdi studied acting at the Akademie für Darstellende Kunst Baden-Württemberg and at the Zurich University of the Arts. She has developed and performed plays at Ballhaus Naunynstraße Berlin, Münchner Kammerspiele, Theater Oberhausen, Ruhrtriennale and Sophiensaele Berlin, among others. In 2015, she was awarded the Newcomer Prize of the City of Vienna for her collective production Meine Nase läuft at Theater Drachengasse. In 2019, she won the Götz George Young Talent Award at the First Steps Awards for her acting performance in the ensemble of Futur Drei. In 2021 she was selected as a Berlinale Talent.