Azade Shahmiri – Sophiensæle | Freies Theater in Berlin

Azade Shahmiri (Tehran/Berlin) is a theater and performance artist, writer and researcher. Her processual practice intertwines narrative forms with personal experiences, memory, testimony, and fictional intervention. Through theater plays, lecture-performances and film essays, she explores marginalized voices embedded in documents, found materials and archives, while reflecting on layered lives within contemporary Iranian hi/stories. Azade Shamiri’s works have been presented at various theaters and festivals, such as Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Wiener Festwochen, Kaserne Basel, Belluard Bolwerk, Edinburgh Festival, Kyoto Experiment, Asian Arts Theatre Gwangju, Theater Festival of Kerala, Sophiensæle and SAVVY Contemporary.