Borna Barzin is a director, writer, and producer based in Brooklyn, and The Asian American Arts Alliance’s 2024 Van Lier Fellow in Theater. He recently served as a Guest Artist at NYU Tisch where he directed Lorca’s Blood Wedding and Charles Mee’s Summertime at Atlantic Stage 2.
He has developed new work with theaters such as Atlantic Theater Company, New York Theater Workshop, The Bushwick Starr, National Queer Theater, and the Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Romania. His plays Hell Is and Like This were workshopped as a part of Egg & Spoon Theater’s Incubate NYC Program and his Van Lier Fellowship, respectively.
At MacDowell, Barzin worked on a new play, Bellydancing Lessons, a play about a makeshift, underground bellydancing studio in Iran in the 1980's.
