Alireza Daryanavard

Alireza Daryanavard is a director, writer and curator, born in Iran. His artistic career began with work as an actor and director on numerous stages in Iran as well as at international festivals. At the same time, he taught emerging talent and founded an underground theatre.

He has lived and worked in Vienna since 2014. He studied post-conceptual art as well as art and intervention at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In Vienna, he creates works as an author and director at various venues, including Theater am Werk, WERK X Petersplatz and the Odeon Theater. As an actor, he has performed at the Volkstheater Wien as part of the Wiener Festwochen, Dschungel Wien, Theater Akzent, Theater Drachengasse, Kosmos Theater and Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom, among others.

Alongside his artistic work, he taught character development and improvisation at international theatre schools in France, Spain, Slovenia, Poland, Germany and Ukraine.

In 2020, he founded the theatre collective Hybrid, which he has led ever since. In 2017, he received the starting grant for performing arts from the Austrian Federal Chancellery. In 2020, he was nominated as an author and director for the NESTROY Theatre Prize in the category „Best Male Newcomer“; this was followed in 2022 by another nomination for the play „ASYL TRIBUNAL – KLAGE GEGEN DIE REPUBLIK“ in the special prize category.

Since 2022, he has been a member of the advisory board for performing arts at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture. In the 2023/2024 season, he directed as part of the international directing programme WORX at the Berliner Ensemble.